renal glomerulus in dogs

A capillary tuft which forms a close network with the visceral epithelium (podocytes) and the mesangium to form the filtration barrier and is surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney[GO]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the renal glomerulus is

A capillary tuft which forms a close network with the visceral epithelium (podocytes) and the mesangium to form the filtration barrier and is surrounded by Bowman's capsule in nephrons of the vertebrate kidney[GO]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the renal glomerulus 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 renal glomerulus connects to

The atlas records 15 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of organ and renal corpuscle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the renal glomerulus. 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 glomerulus, renal glomeruli, Malphigian glomerulus, Malpighian glomerulus, Malpighian tuft and glomerular capillary tuft, and 3 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000074, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: organ and renal corpuscle.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• contains: glomerular basement membrane, glomerular capillary, glomerular capillary endothelium, glomerular epithelium, glomerular mesangium and mesangium, and 2 more.
• contributes to morphology of: glomerular capillary and glomerular mesangium.
• Develops from: glomerular tuft.
• overlaps: extraglomerular mesangium.

Questions

Where is the renal glomerulus?

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 renal glomerulus connect to?

Part of: organ and renal corpuscle.

Is the renal glomerulus 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.