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renal glomerulus

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A capillary tuft which forms a close network with the visceral epithelium (podocytes) and the mesangium to form the filtration barrier and is surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney[GO]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomerulus MP:0005325 ]

Synonyms: renal glomeruli

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

contributor

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9114-8737

creation date

2009-06-18T09:26:37Z

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Renal_corpuscle.svg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Gray1130.svg

external ontology notes

ZFA - The multi-tissue structure where the glomerular basement membrane supported by mesonephric podocytes filters blood from the glomerular capillaries. GUDMAP: 'Together, the Bowman's capsule and the glomerulus comprise the definitive renal corpuscle.' - here the glomerulus is part of the capsule?

has broad synonym

glomerulus

has related synonym

glomerulus renis

glomerular capillary tuft

Malphigian glomerulus

glomerular tuft

renal corpuscle

Malpighian glomerulus

Malpighian tuft

id

UBERON:0000074

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606