| Term: | heart gap junction |
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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: | heart |
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| Definition: | Blood pumping organ composed of four components: sinus venosus, atrium, cardiac ventricle and bulbus arteriosus. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000114] |
| Name: | gap junction |
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| Synonyms: | communicating junction, electrical synapse, gap junction macula, gap junction plaque, intercellular gap junction channel, macula communicans, zonula communicans |
| Definition: | A cell-cell junction composed of pannexins or innexins and connexins, two different families of channel-forming proteins. |
| Ontology: | GO: Cellular Component [GO:0005921] QuickGO AmiGO |