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smooth muscle tissue

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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

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Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

has related synonym

textus muscularis levis; textus muscularis nonstriatus

id

UBERON:0001135