descending thin limb in dogs

The descending thin limb is a part of the loop of Henle situated just after the proximal straight tubule (S3). It extends to the tip of the loop of Henle[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the descending thin limb is

The descending thin limb is a part of the loop of Henle situated just after the proximal straight tubule (S3). It extends to the tip of the loop of Henle[GO]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the descending thin limb is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the descending thin limb connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of descending limb of loop of Henle, loop of Henle and organ.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the descending thin limb. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as descending thin limb of loop of Henle, loop of Henle descending thin limb, loop of Henle thin descending limb, pars descendens (tubulus attenuatus), thin descending limb and descending limb of Henle's loop, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005096, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: descending limb of loop of Henle, loop of Henle and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and nephron tubule.
• Continuous with: proximal straight tubule.

Questions

Where is the descending thin limb?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the descending thin limb connect to?

Part of: descending limb of loop of Henle, loop of Henle and organ.

Is the descending thin limb the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.