Term: cardiac muscle cell I band
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Name: cardiac muscle cell
Synonyms: cardiac muscle cells, cardiac myocyte, cardiomyocyte
Definition:
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009316]
Name: I band
Synonyms: I disc, isotropic disc, J disc
Definition: A region of a sarcomere that appears as a light band on each side of the Z disc, comprising a region of the sarcomere where thin (actin) filaments are not overlapped by thick (myosin) filaments; contains actin, troponin, and tropomyosin; each sarcomere includes half of an I band at each end.
Ontology: GO: Cellular Component [GO:0031674]    QuickGO    AmiGO