The tiny blood vessels that receive blood from the efferent arterioles of the glomerulus, and interact with superficial cortical nephrons allowing reabsorption and secretion between blood and the inner lumen of the nephron; peritubular capillaries are situated around the tubule and are at low pressure. [ http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith MP:0011321 ]
Term information
pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- kidney capillary
- capable of part of some renal absorption
- connected to some renal efferent arteriole