Preferred Name |
primary circulatory organ |
Synonyms |
heart dorsal tube adult heart |
Definitions |
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood or analogs[GO,modified]. Gene notes: Bmp, Nkx, Gata |
ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0007100 |
comment |
Gene notes: Bmp, Nkx, Gata |
capable of | |
database_cross_reference |
TADS:0000147 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5795/1922/F1.large.jpg SPD:0000130 |
definition |
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood or analogs[GO,modified]. |
has part | |
has_narrow_synonym |
heart dorsal tube |
has_obo_namespace |
uberon |
has_related_synonym |
adult heart |
id |
UBERON:0007100 |
in_subset | |
label |
primary circulatory organ |
notation |
UBERON:0007100 |
prefLabel |
primary circulatory organ |
UBPROP_0000008 |
note we reserve the subclass 'heart' from the vertebrate multi-chambered heart. 'The first heart-like organ is believed to have appeared 500my ago in an ancestral bilaterian'. Amniotes: four-chambered heart. Amphibians: two atria, one ventricle, pulmonary; fish: single atrium and ventricle; amphioxus: tubular, non-striated, closed, unidirectional; ascidians: tubular, striated, open, bidirectional; arthropods: tubular, open; C elegans: contractile pharynx; Cnideria: striated muscle cells associated with gastrodermis |
subClassOf |