Extraglomerular mesangial cell

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Extraglomerular mesangial cells (or lacis cells) are light-staining cells in the kidney found outside the glomerulus, near the vascular pole and macula densa.

Lacis cells form the juxtaglomerular apparatus in combination with two other types of cells: the macula densa of the thick ascending limb of Henle and Juxtaglomerular cells of the afferent arteriole. This apparatus controls blood pressure through the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone system. The specific function of Lacis cells is not well understood.^[1]

[edit] See also

• mesangium
• intraglomerular mesangial cells

[edit] External links

• UIUC Histology Subject 1010
• Dorlands/Elsevier m_10/12526143

[edit] References

1. ^ Junqueira, Luiz C.; Jose Carneiro (2003). Basic Histology. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0838505902. 

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