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MAMMALIAN PHENOTYPE - ANNOTATIONS

The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.

Term:abnormal loop of Henle morphology
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Accession:MP:0004755 term browser browse the term
Definition:any structural anomaly of the section of the renal tubule in the kidney medulla with a hairpin bend; consists of a descending limb and an ascending limb, and is situated between the proximal convoluted tubule to the distal convoluted tubule; it functions to reabsorb water and ions from the urine
Synonyms:exact_synonym: abnormal ansa nephroni morphology;   abnormal limb of Henle
 related_synonym: abnormal Henle's loop morphology;   abnormal nephron loop morphology
 xref: MA:0001675



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  mammalian phenotype 5402
    renal/urinary system phenotype 649
      abnormal renal/urinary system morphology 279
        abnormal kidney morphology 272
          abnormal nephron morphology 118
            abnormal renal tubule morphology 16
              abnormal loop of Henle morphology 0
                abnormal loop of Henle ascending limb morphology + 0
                abnormal loop of Henle descending limb morphology 0
                truncated loop of Henle 0
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