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GO: Biological Process
metanephric extraglomerular mesangial cell proliferation involved in metanephros development
- Term ID
- GO:0072261
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- metanephric Goormaghtigh proliferation
- metanephric lacis cell proliferation
- Definition
- The multiplication or reproduction of extraglomerular glomerular mesangium cells in the metanephros by cell division, resulting in the expansion of their population. Extraglomerular mesangial cells (also known as lacis cells, Goormaghtigh cells) are light-staining cells in the kidney found outside the glomerulus, near the vascular pole and macula densa.
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