Muscle tissue is a contractile tissue made up of actin and myosin fibers[GO]. [ https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2801266&group_id=36855&atid=440764 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_tissue http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0060537 ]
Synonyms: portion of muscle tissue textus muscularis
Term information
- MESH:D009132
- EHDAA2:0003122
- CALOHA:TS-0642
- NCIT:C12435
- Wikipedia:Muscle_tissue
- AEO:0000122
- FMA:9641
- EMAPA:32715
- MA:0002437
- AAO:0000306
- galen:MuscleTissue
- SCTID:91727004
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Vertebrate muscle is categorized into three major muscle types defined by their structural and functional properties: skeletal, cardiac and smooth. In Dmel the counterparts are somatic, heart/cardiac and visceral. Here we take a cell type based approach.
Term relations
- tissue
- mesoderm-derived structure
- capable of some muscle contraction
- composed primarily of some muscle cell
- part of some musculature