Medical Subject Headings

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Preferred Name

Pericytes

Synonyms

Pericyte

Cells, Rouget

Rouget Cells

Definitions

Unique slender cells with multiple processes extending along the capillary vessel axis and encircling the vascular wall, also called mural cells. Pericytes are imbedded in the BASEMENT MEMBRANE shared with the ENDOTHELIAL CELLS of the vessel. Pericytes are important in maintaining vessel integrity, angiogenesis, and vascular remodeling.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D020286

altLabel

Pericyte

Cells, Rouget

Rouget Cells

AQL

CH CL CY DE EN IM ME MI PA PH PS RE TR UL VI

cui

C0598800

DC

1

definition

Unique slender cells with multiple processes extending along the capillary vessel axis and encircling the vascular wall, also called mural cells. Pericytes are imbedded in the BASEMENT MEMBRANE shared with the ENDOTHELIAL CELLS of the vessel. Pericytes are important in maintaining vessel integrity, angiogenesis, and vascular remodeling.

DX

19990101

HN

99

Inverse of AQ

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000648

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000276

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000378

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000469

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000821

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000473

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000145

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000737

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000382

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000502

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000187

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000201

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000637

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000166

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000528

Machine permutation

99

MDA

19980610

MMR

20180701

MN

A16.504.660.600

A11.710

A07.015.700.750

A10.272.491.677

notation

D020286

prefLabel

Pericytes

TERMUI

T060050

T060051

TH

NLM (1999)

tui

T025

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008648

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D004727

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D002477

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D017539

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