Muscle tissue which is unstriated, composed primarily of smooth muscle fibers surrounded by a reticulum of collagen and elastic fibers. Smooth muscle differs from striated muscle in the much higher actin/myosin ratio, the absence of conspicuous sarcomeres and the ability to contract to a much smaller fraction of its resting length[GO]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_muscle_tissue http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0006939 ]
Synonyms: involuntary muscle textus muscularis nonstriatus non-striated muscle smooth muscle
Term information
- XAO:0000175
- MESH:D009130
- GAID:167
- FMA:14070
- TAO:0005274
- NCIT:C12437
- galen:SmoothMuscleTissue
- BTO:0001260
- EHDAA2:0003141
- EFO:0000889
- MA:0000166
- galen:SmoothMuscle
- EV:0100378
- EMAPA:32717
- MIAA:0000303
- CALOHA:TS-0943
- AAO:0010244
- MAT:0000303
- WBbt:0005781
- ZFA:0005274
- VHOG:0001246
- AEO:0000141
- Wikipedia:Smooth_muscle_tissue
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
Term relations
- muscle tissue
- composed primarily of some smooth muscle cell
- has part some elastic fiber
- has part some smooth muscle cell