peritubular capillary in dogs
The tiny blood vessels that receive blood from the efferent arterioles of the glomerulus, and interact with superficial cortical nephrons allowing reabsorption and secretion between blood and the inner lumen of the nephron; peritubular capillaries are situated around the tubule and are at low pressure. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the peritubular capillary is
The tiny blood vessels that receive blood from the efferent arterioles of the glomerulus, and interact with superficial cortical nephrons allowing reabsorption and secretion between blood and the inner lumen of the nephron; peritubular capillaries are situated around the tubule and are at low pressure. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the peritubular capillary is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What the peritubular capillary connects to
The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of kidney capillary.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the peritubular capillary. 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.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005272, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- A kind of: kidney capillary.
- Connected to: renal efferent arteriole.
- subtype: outer renal medulla peritubular capillary and renal cortex peritubular capillary.
Questions
Where is the peritubular capillary?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.
What does the peritubular capillary connect to?
A kind of: kidney capillary.
Is the peritubular capillary 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.