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VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:heart muscle contractility trait
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Accession:VT:2000018 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurable or observable characteristic related to the ability of cardiac muscle fibers to shorten.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: cardiac muscle contraction;   heart muscle contraction



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  vertebrate trait 6
    organ system trait 6
      muscular system trait 0
        muscular system physiology trait 0
          heart muscle physiology trait 0
            heart muscle contractility trait 0
              heart muscle contractile force 0
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  vertebrate trait 6
    organ system trait 6
      circulatory system trait 1
        circulatory system physiology trait 1
          cardiovascular system physiology trait 1
            heart physiology trait 0
              heart muscle physiology trait 0
                heart muscle contractility trait 0
                  heart muscle contractile force 0
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