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. [ https://doi.org/10.1038/ki.1991.49 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575881 ]
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- MA:0002616
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- NCIT:C33459
- FMA:70983
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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.
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
The fibroblasts in the interstitium provide the 'skeleton' of the tissue and maintain the three-dimensional architecture of the tissue.