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CLINICAL MEASUREMENT - ANNOTATIONS

The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:blood vessel smooth muscle cell count
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Accession:CMO:0001643 term browser browse the term
Definition:Measurement of the total number of cells, membrane-enclosed protoplasmic masses constituting the smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, in a specified sample of vascular smooth muscle, the contractile soft tissue having fine myofibrils but lacking transverse striations composing the majority of the wall of blood vessels, the network of muscular tubes that carry blood through the body.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: vascular smooth muscle cell count



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  clinical measurement 0
    cardiovascular measurement 0
      blood vessel measurement 0
        blood vessel smooth muscle measurement 0
          blood vessel smooth muscle cell count 0
            aorta smooth muscle cell count 0
            calculated blood vessel smooth muscle cell count + 0
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