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Purkinje myocyte

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CL_0002068


Specialized cardiac myocyte that is subendocardially interspersed with the regular cardiac muscle cell. They are uninucleate cylindrical cells, associated end-to-end in long rows, continue from the node to the atrioventricular bundle; relatively short compared to ordinary myocytes but are nearly twice their diameter. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19939742 FMA:0412046911 GOC:tfm ]

Synonyms: Purkinje cell fiber, Purkinje muscle cell, myocytus conducens cardiacus

Term info

database cross reference
  • BTO:0001032
  • FMA:14146
Subsets

human_reference_atlas

contributor

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1980-3228

creation date

2010-06-28T08:36:15Z

prefLabel

Purkinje myocyte

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606