peritubular capillary
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 human body.
Where the peritubular capillary is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.
What the peritubular capillary connects to
The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 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.
- contains: endothelium of peritubular capillary.
- composed of: peritubular capillary plexus of kidney.
Questions
Where is the peritubular capillary?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. Not positioned individually, and containment is not asserted either. Drawn near structures of the same kind, which is a weak claim about location.
What does the peritubular capillary connect to?
A kind of: kidney capillary.
Is the peritubular capillary 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.