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://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ki.1991.49 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575881 ]
Synonyms: renal stroma renal interstitial tissue renal interstitium interstitial tissue of kidney stroma of kidney
Term information
- MA:0002616
- FMA:70983
- EMAPA:28518
- SCTID:362210003
- NCIT:C33459
pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
Term relations
- interstitial tissue
- contributes to morphology of some kidney
- composed primarily of some kidney interstitial fibroblast
- part of some kidney