The collecting duct is a portion of the nephron through which water flows, moving passively down its concentration gradient. [ http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0072044 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collecting_tubule ]

Synonyms: tubulus renalis colligens tubulus renalis arcuatus collecting duct kidney collecting duct renal collecting tubule

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Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

external definition

Renal duct that collects the output from renal tubules.[TAO]

external ontology notes

in ISBN:0073040584 (Vertebrates, Kardong), the nephron is adjacent to the collecting tubule, consistent with FMA, but not GO. Wikipedia says: Many sources include the connecting tubule as part of the collecting duct system. However, the embryological origin is more similar to the nephron than it is to the rest of the collecting duct (which derives from the ureteric bud), and other sources therefore classify the connecting tubule with the nephron

has related synonym

junctional tube

kidney collecting tubule

arcuate renal tubule

collecting tubule

ureteric tree

collecting duct system

id

UBERON:0001232

present in taxon

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