renal afferent arteriole

Preferred Label : renal afferent arteriole;

Uberon definition : 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;

Uberon synonym : afferent glomerular arteriole; afferent glomerular arteriole of kidney; afferent arteriole; kidney afferent arteriole;

Details

Origin ID

0004639;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Afferent glomerular arteriole [FMA entity]
- Afferent glomerular arteriole of kidney [FMA entity]
- Entire afferent arteriole (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Entire afferent glomerular arteriole (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Structure of afferent arteriole (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Structure of afferent glomerular arteriole (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- afferent arteriole [SNOMED Notion]
- afferent glomerular arteriole [SNOMED Notion]
- afferent glomerular arteriole [Radlex concept]
Uberon cross reference
- Afferent glomerular arteriole of kidney [FMA entity]
- Entire afferent arteriole (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
branching part of
- interlobular artery [UBERON concept]
contributes to morphology of
- renal corpuscle [UBERON concept]
has part
- part of afferent arteriole forming the juxtaglomerular complex [UBERON concept]
part of
- interlobular artery [UBERON concept]
- renal corpuscle [UBERON concept]
supplies
- nephron [UBERON concept]

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