kidney interstitium

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. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the kidney interstitium is

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. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the kidney interstitium is

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the kidney interstitium connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of kidney.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the kidney interstitium. 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 interstitial tissue of kidney, renal interstitial tissue, renal interstitium, renal stroma, stroma of kidney and kidney interstitium group. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0005215, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the kidney interstitium?

It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the urinary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the kidney interstitium connect to?

Part of: kidney.

Is the kidney interstitium the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.