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endothelium

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001986


A layer of epithelium that lines the heart, blood vessels (endothelium, vascular), lymph vessels (endothelium, lymphatic), and the serous cavities of the body[MESH]. Simple squamous epithelium which lines blood and lymphatic vessels and the heart[FMA]. [ MESH:A10.272.491 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/225 FMA:63916 ]

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000007

endothelial

comment

The term 'endothelium' has been either restricted to the continuous cell layer of the vertebrates, as we are assuming here, or applied to all the cells able to adhere to the luminal surface of the vascular basement membrane (Casley-Smith 1980)

id

UBERON:0001986

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon.owl, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl

prefLabel

Endothelium

present in taxon

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