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descending limb of loop of Henle

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The portion of the renal tubule that constitutes the proximal part of the loop of Henle, has low permeability to ions and urea, and is highly permeable to water; it consists of an initial short thick segment lined by low simple cuboidal epithelium and a long thin segment lined by simple squamous epithelium; however, this distinction is not as important physiologically as in the ascending limb, so often the two are treated as one structure. [ MP:0011341 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/anna ]

Synonyms: descending limb of Henle's loop loop of Henle descending limb

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Term information

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Gray1128.png

has broad synonym

descending limb

id

UBERON:0001289

present in taxon

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