smooth muscle cell
A non-striated, elongated, spindle-shaped cell found lining the digestive tract, uterus, and blood vessels. They develop from specialized myoblasts (smooth muscle myoblast). [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_muscle_cell http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D032389 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9315361 ]
Term info
smooth muscle cell
- SMCs
- myocytes, smooth muscle
- smooth muscle fiber
human_reference_atlas
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
CL:0000191
non-striated muscle cell