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epithelium

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000483

Editor note: surface epithelium may contain non-epithelial cells, such as melanocytes, lymphocytes and dendritic cells, within the sheet of epithelial cells. Do we consider these part of the epithelium, or located-in it?

Term info

Label

epithelium

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core

definition

Portion of tissue, that consists of one or more layers of epithelial cells connected to each other by cell junctions and which is underlain by a basal lamina. Examples: simple squamous epithelium, glandular cuboidal epithelium, transitional epithelium, myoepithelium[CARO].

depicted by

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Illu_epithelium.jpg, Tkanka:nablonkowa.png

has exact synonym

portion of epithelium, epithelial tissue

homology notes

The two basic types of metazoan tissue are epithelial and connective. The simplest metazoans, and developmental stages of many primitive invertebrates, consist solely of these two layers. Thus, epithelial and connective tissues may be the primary (original) tissues of metazoans, and both are important in the functional organization of animals.[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0000483

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl