slow muscle tissue

Preferred Label : slow muscle tissue;

Uberon definition : The darker-colored muscle tissue of some mammals, composed of slow twitch muscle fibers.;

Uberon synonym : slow-twitch skeletal muscle; slow skeletal muscle tissue; slow muscle;

Uberon related term : red muscle;

Uberon Development note : The fast and slow skeletal muscles are different in terms of twitching speed (Fitts 1994), and they are believed to be derived from distinct myogenic precursors (Stockdale 1992);

Details

Origin ID

0006907;

UMLS CUI

C0242874;

Semantic type(s)
- Cell [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Skeletal muscle fiber, type I (cell structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Slow-Twitch Muscle Fiber [NCIt concept]
- Type 1 muscle cell [FMA entity]
- muscle fibers, Slow-Twitch [MeSH concept]
- muscle fibers, slow-twitch [MeSH Descriptor]
- skeletal muscle fiber, type i [SNOMED Notion]
Uberon cross reference
- Slow-Twitch Muscle Fiber [NCIt concept]

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