The inner layer of the glomerulus, within the basement membrane surrounding the glomerular capillaries. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesangium https://sourceforge.net/p/obo/foundational-model-of-anatomy-fma-requests/13/ ]
Term information
- UMLS:C0017655 (ncithesaurus:Mesangium)
- BTO:0002494
- FMA:84139
- EMAPA:36561 (MA:th)
- EMAPA:28248
- NCIT:C33101
- MA:0002617
- Wikipedia:Mesangium
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
WP considers this the same as glomerular mesangium. In MA, glomerular and extraglomerular are distingsuished. FMA class has no definition and is a type of stroma, which is inconsistent with our classification of this here.
Term relations
- cell layer and located in some glomerular basement membrane and composed primarily of some mesangial cell
- environment associated with an animal part or small animal
- cell layer
- cellular anatomical structure
- mesoderm-derived structure
- surrounds some glomerular capillary
- part of some kidney interstitium
- has part some mesangial cell
- part of some renal glomerulus