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renal afferent arteriole

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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 http://www.informatics.jax.org/accession/csmith http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0-683-40008-8&isbn=1/ ]

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

Term info

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pheno_slim, vertebrate_core, human_reference_atlas

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has related synonym

arteriola glomerularis afferens

id

UBERON:0004639

prefLabel

renal afferent arteriole, Afferent glomerular arteriole of kidney

present in taxon

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