renal afferent arteriole
The blood vessels that branch from the kidney interlobular artery, convey blood to the glomerular capillaries, and play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure as a part of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the renal afferent arteriole is
The blood vessels that branch from the kidney interlobular artery, convey blood to the glomerular capillaries, and play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure as a part of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the renal afferent arteriole is
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. 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 renal afferent arteriole connects to
The atlas records 10 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of cardiovascular system, kidney and renal corpuscle, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the renal afferent arteriole. 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 afferent arteriole, afferent glomerular arteriole, afferent glomerular arteriole of kidney, arteriola glomerularis afferens renis, kidney afferent arteriole and arteriola glomerularis afferens. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0004639, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: cardiovascular system, kidney, renal corpuscle and vascular system.
- A kind of: arteriole, blood vessel and kidney blood vessel.
- Connected to: glomerular capillary.
- Supplies: nephron.
- contributes to morphology of: renal corpuscle.
Questions
Where is the renal afferent arteriole?
It sits in the abdomen and trunk, within the cardiovascular and urinary systems. 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 renal afferent arteriole connect to?
Part of: cardiovascular system, kidney, renal corpuscle and vascular system.
Is the renal afferent arteriole 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.