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muscle tissue

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Muscle tissue is a contractile tissue made up of actin and myosin fibers[GO]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_tissue http://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0060537 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2801266&group_id=36855&atid=440764 ]

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muscle tissue

Synonyms
  • muscular tissue
  • portion of muscle tissue
  • textus muscularis
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Subsets

uberon_slim

taxonomic disambiguation
muscular tissue

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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.

external definition

One of the four types of tissue in traditional classifications. Tissue that contains cells with contractile filaments that move past each other and change the size of the cell. Muscle tissue also is separated into three distinct categories.[AAO]

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UBERON:0002385