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fenestrated capillary

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Capillary that has pores in the endothelial cells (60-80 nm in diameter) that are spanned by a diaphragm of radially oriented fibrils and allow small molecules and limited amounts of protein to diffuse. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenestra_(histology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary#Types ]

Synonyms: fenestrated capillary vessel

Term info

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UBPROP 0000001

Blood vessel endothelium that has pores that allow passage small molecules and proteins[ZFA].

editor note

the ZFA class from which this was derived is not explicitly classified as a capillary - need to verify for taxon histology differences

has broad synonym

fenestrated blood vessel endothelium

id

UBERON:2005260

prefLabel

Fenestrated capillary

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