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pronephric duct
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In mammals, the pronephric duct is the predecessor of the Wolffian duct[WP]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronephric_duct ]
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pronephric duct
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The pronephric duct collects the filtrate from the pronephric tubules and opens to the exterior of the pronephric kidney[GOC:mtg_kidney_jan10, PMID:15647339, XAO:0000063, ZFA:0000150]
external definition
The first-formed kidney duct, which drains the kidney of most anamniotes and becomes the ductus deferens of male amniotes. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Glossary_G-3, Grande_L, Liem_KF, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF][VHOG], Duct of the embryonic kidney, present bilaterally ventral to the somites and leading to the anal region where it empties separately from, and just posterior to the anus. Kimmel et al, 1995.[TAO]
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has related synonym
ductus pronephricus, pronephric ducts, archinephric duct
homology notes
(...) in all craniates, the archinephric duct develops in embryogeny.[well established][VHOG]
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UBERON:0003060
Term relations
Subclass of:
- meso-epithelium
- nephric duct
- part of some pronephros
- develops_from some pronephric mesoderm
- develops_from some intermediate mesoderm