The interstitial compartment of the kidney, comprising the extravascular intertubular spaces of the renal parenchyma, with their attendant cellular elements and extracellular substances, bounded on all sides by epithelial and vascular basement membranes. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575881 https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.1991.49 ]
Term information
- FMA:70983
- null:http://www.snomedbrowser.com/Codes/Details/362210003
- MA:0002616
- NCIT:C33459
- EMAPA:28518
pheno_slim
- The interstitial compartment of the kidney, comprising the extravascular intertubular spaces of the renal parenchyma, with their attendant cellular elements and extracellular substances, bounded on all sides by epithelial and vascular basement membranes.
- See https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/10941/
- The interstitium is necessarily involved in all intrarenal exchange processes since the reabsorption and secretion of fluid and solutes implicates a transit across the interstitial compartment.
- renal stroma
- renal interstitial tissue
- interstitial tissue of kidney
- renal interstitium
- stroma of kidney
- uberon
- kidney interstitium group
- UBERON:0005215
- The fibroblasts in the interstitium provide the 'skeleton' of the tissue and maintain the three-dimensional architecture of the tissue.
Term relations
- interstitial tissue and part of some kidney