Human Reference Atlas

Last uploaded: January 7, 2025
Id http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002385
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002385
Preferred Name

muscle tissue

Definitions
Muscle tissue is a contractile tissue made up of actin and myosin fibers[GO]. 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.
Synonyms
muscular tissue
textus muscularis
portion of muscle tissue
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