distal convoluted tubule in dogs

The first segment of the nephron lying just downstream from the loop of Henle, immediately after the macula densa. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the distal convoluted tubule is

The first segment of the nephron lying just downstream from the loop of Henle, immediately after the macula densa. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the dog.

Where the distal convoluted tubule 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 distal convoluted tubule connects to

The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of cortex of kidney and distal tubule.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the distal convoluted tubule. 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 distal convoluted renal tubule, tubulus contortus distalis, second convoluted tubule and tubulus convolutus distalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001292, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cortex of kidney and distal tubule.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, epithelium, renal convoluted tubule and renal cortex tubule.
• contributes to morphology of: nephron tubule.
• Develops from: metanephric mesenchyme.
• contains: distal convoluted tubule macula densa.
• Continuous with: loop of Henle.

Questions

Where is the distal convoluted tubule?

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 distal convoluted tubule connect to?

Part of: cortex of kidney and distal tubule.

Is the distal convoluted tubule 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.