Myofibroblast - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Myofibroblast;

NCIt definition : A spindle-shaped cell that exhibits characteristics of both fibroblasts and smooth muscle cells. It has an elongated nucleus and does not have basal lamina. The cytoplasm can be distinguished from the surrounding matrix because of actin filaments, myosin and other muscle proteins arranged to suggest a contractile ability.;

Details

Origin ID

C33153;

UMLS CUI

C0225360;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Connective and Soft Tissue [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Myofibroblast [FMA entity]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Myofibroblast (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- myofibroblast [SNOMED Notion]
- myofibroblasts [MeSH Descriptor]
- myofibroblasts [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Myofibroblast [FMA entity]
- Myofibroblast (cell) [SNOMED CT concept]
- myofibroblast [SNOMED Notion]
- myofibroblasts [MeSH concept]
- myofibroblasts [MeSH Descriptor]
is_normal_cell_origin_of_disease
- Breast Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Central Nervous System Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Intranodal Palisaded Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Mammary-Type Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Paratesticular Mammary-Type Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Seminal Vesicle Mammary-Type Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Vaginal Superficial Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]
- Vulvar Superficial Myofibroblastoma [NCIt concept]

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