The blood vessels that branch from the kidney interlobular artery, convey blood to the glomerular capillaries, and play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure as a part of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism. [ MP:0011312 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith ]

Synonyms: kidney afferent arteriole afferent arteriole afferent glomerular arteriole of kidney afferent glomerular arteriole arteriola glomerularis afferens renis

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Term information

Subsets

pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

latin term
arteriola glomerularis afferens renis [ FMA:77042 FMA:TA ]

latin term
arteriola glomerularis afferens [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferent_arterioles ]

depicted by

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has related synonym

arteriola glomerularis afferens

id

UBERON:0004639

present in taxon

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