| Term: | bone tissue heparan sulfate |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | bone tissue |
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| Definition: | Skeletal tissue with a collagen-rich extracellular matrix vascularized, mineralized with hydroxyapatite and typically including osteocytes located in lacunae that communicate with one another by cell processes (in canaliculi). Bone is deposited by osteoblasts. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005621] |
| Name: | heparan sulfate |
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| Synonyms: | Heparan N-sulfate, Heparan sulfate, Heparan sulphate, Heparatan sulfate, Heparin monosulfate, Heparin sulfate, Heparitin monosulfate, Heparitin sulfate, N-Acetylheparan sulfate |
| Definition: | A linear polysaccharide in which the backbone consists of a variably sulfated repeating disaccharide unit. |
| Ontology: | ChEBI [CHEBI:28815] ( EBI ) |