Phenotype: | Kupffer's vesicle tight junction structure, abnormal |
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Note: | This statement combines anatomy and/or ontology terms with phenotype quality terms to create a complete phenotype (EQ) statement. For detailed information on individual terms, click the hyperlinked term name. |
Name: | Kupffer's vesicle |
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Synonyms: | ciliated organ of asymmetry |
Definition: | Small but distinctive epithelial sac containing fluid, located midventrally posterior to the yolk cell or its extension, and transiently present during most of the segmentation period. Kupffer's vesicle has been compared to the mouse embryonic node. |
Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000001] |
Name: | tight junction |
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Synonyms: | occluding cell junction, occluding junction |
Definition: | A cell-cell junction that seals cells together in an epithelium in a way that prevents even small molecules from leaking from one side of the sheet to the other. |
Ontology: | GO: Cellular Component [GO:0070160] QuickGO AmiGO |
Name: | structure |
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Synonyms: | conformation, relational structural quality |
Definition: | A morphology quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's relative position, shape, arrangements and connectivity of an organism's various parts; the pattern underlying its form. |
Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0000141] |