lacis cells

lacis cells
lacelike cells in the pale-staining polkissen of the juxtaglomerular apparatus of the kidney; they have numerous processes to connect gap junctions and are thought to provide electrical coupling among themselves and to the mesangium and glomerular arterioles. Called also Goormaghtigh c's and extraglomerular mesangium.

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