nephron tubule
An epithelial tube that is part of the nephron, the functional part of the kidney. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the nephron tubule is
An epithelial tube that is part of the nephron, the functional part of the kidney. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.
Where the nephron tubule 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 nephron tubule connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of kidney, nephron and renal system.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the nephron 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 renal tubule, kidney tubule, tubulus renalis and uriniferous tubule. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001231, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: kidney, nephron and renal system.
- A kind of: anatomical conduit and epithelium.
- contributes to morphology of: nephron, distal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle and proximal convoluted tubule.
- contains: proximal tubular epithelium, proximal tubule and region of nephron tubule.
- overlaps: medullary ray.
- subtype: region of nephron tubule.
Questions
Where is the nephron tubule?
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 nephron tubule connect to?
Part of: kidney, nephron and renal system.
Is the nephron tubule 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.