pericyte

contractile cells that wrap around the endothelial cells of capillaries and venules throughout the body
Thing cell_type Q500446
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pericyte

Summary

pericyte is a cell type[1]. pericyte draws 104 Wikipedia views per month (cell_type category, ranking #64 of 335).[2]

Key Facts

  • pericyte is credited with the discovery of Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget[3].
  • pericyte's image is recorded as Microvessel.jpg[4].
  • pericyte's instance of is recorded as cell type[5].
  • Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget is named after pericyte[6].
  • pericyte's subclass of is recorded as connective tissue cell[7].
  • pericyte's subclass of is recorded as mural cell[8].
  • pericyte's Commons category is recorded as Pericyte[9].
  • pericyte's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D020286[10].
  • pericyte's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1873-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • pericyte's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05y9qs[12].
  • pericyte's MeSH tree code is recorded as A07.015.700.750[13].
  • pericyte's MeSH tree code is recorded as A10.272.491.677[14].
  • pericyte's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.710[15].
  • pericyte's MeSH tree code is recorded as A16.504.660.600[16].
  • pericyte's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 63174[17].
  • pericyte's Terminologia Histologica is recorded as H3.09.02.0.02006[18].
  • pericyte's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0598800[19].
  • pericyte's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2331660[20].
  • pericyte's TA98 Latin term is recorded as pericytus[21].
  • pericyte's Store medisinske leksikon ID is recorded as pericytter[22].
  • pericyte's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780427682[23].
  • pericyte's Cell Ontology ID is recorded as CL_0000669[24].
  • pericyte's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2780427682[25].

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Works and Contributions

pericyte is credited with the discovery of Charles Marie Benjamin Rouget[3].

Why It Matters

pericyte draws 104 Wikipedia views per month (cell_type category, ranking #64 of 335).[2] pericyte has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] pericyte is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . Human cell type diversity, evolution, development, and classification with special reference to cells derived from the neural crest. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . Morphology and Properties of Pericytes. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Morphology and Properties of Pericytes. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Morphology and Properties of Pericytes. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pericyte_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pericyte}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pericyte}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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