The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
any structural anomaly of the stellate-shaped contractile cells with flattened nuclei and long slender processes that surround the secretory acini and intralobular ducts of the lacrimal gland, located between the epithelium and the basement membrane; myoepithelial cells not only exhibit characteristics of other epithelial cells, such as expression of cytokeratin, but also exhibit properties of smooth muscle cells, such as expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin; their contraction might aid in the expulsion of fluid out of the secretory tubules or help maintain the patency of acinar and ductal lumens