Stereocilium - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Stereocilium;

NCIt synonyms : Stereovillus; Stereocilia;

NCIt definition : A non-motile microvillus-like structure found in certain epithelial tissues. It is comprised of plasma membrane that is supported by longitudinal actin filaments.;

NCIt note : Stereocilia of the inner ear are involved in the detection of sound waves.; Tissues that have stereocilia include the sensory epithelia of the inner ear, the vas deferens and the epididymis. There can be many stereocilia per cell.;

Details

Origin ID

C33614;

UMLS CUI

C0230626;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Apical Domain of the Epithelium [NCIt concept]
Associated anatomy of gene products
- Cadherin-23 [NCIt concept]
- Espin [NCIt concept]
- Myosin-IIIa [NCIt concept]
- Sodium Bicarbonate Cotransporter 3 [NCIt concept]
- Unconventional Myosin-XV [NCIt concept]
- Usher Syndrome Type-1G Protein [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- stereocilium tip [GO term]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Stereocilium [FMA entity]
- Stereocilium (cell structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- stereocilia [MeSH Descriptor]
- stereocilia [MeSH concept]
- stereocilium [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- stereocilium [GO term]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Stereocilium [FMA entity]
- Stereocilium (cell structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- stereocilia [MeSH concept]
- stereocilia [MeSH Descriptor]
- stereocilium [GO term]
- stereocilium [SNOMED Notion]

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