Term Name: slow muscle cell
Synonyms: red muscle cell, slow muscle fiber
Definition: A muscle cell that is small, darkly colored, with high lipid and mitochondrial content.
Appears at: Segmentation:1-4 somites (10.33h-11.66h)
Evident until: Adult (90d-730d, breeding adult)
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0009116]

Relationships
develops from: migratory slow muscle precursor cell slow muscle myoblast
is a type of: skeletal muscle cell
has subtype: slow muscle cell somite 1 slow muscle cell somite 2 slow muscle cell somite 3 slow muscle cell somite 4 slow muscle cell somite 5 slow muscle cell somite 6 slow muscle cell somite 7 slow muscle cell somite 8 slow muscle cell somite 9 slow muscle cell somite 10 slow muscle cell somite 11 slow muscle cell somite 12 slow muscle cell somite 13 slow muscle cell somite 14 slow muscle cell somite 15 slow muscle cell somite 16 slow muscle cell somite 17 slow muscle cell somite 18 slow muscle cell somite 19 slow muscle cell somite 20 slow muscle cell somite 21 slow muscle cell somite 22 slow muscle cell somite 23 slow muscle cell somite 24 slow muscle cell somite 25 slow muscle cell somite 26 slow muscle cell somite 27 slow muscle cell somite 28 slow muscle cell somite 29 slow muscle cell somite 30

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