The interstitial compartment of the kidney, comprising the extravascular intertubular spaces of the renal parenchyma, with their attendant cellular elements and extracellular substances, bounded on all sides by epithelial and vascular basement membranes. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ki.1991.49 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575881 ]
Synonyms: renal stroma renal interstitial tissue interstitial tissue of kidney renal interstitium stroma of kidney
Term information
- FMA:70983
- MA:0002616
- SCTID:362210003
- NCIT:C33459
- EMAPA:28518
pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- interstitial tissue
- contributes to morphology of some kidney
- composed primarily of some kidney interstitial fibroblast
- part of some kidney