Term: muscle I band
Name: muscle
Synonyms: muscles
Definition: Portion of tissue composed of contractile fibers.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005145]

Name: I band
Synonyms: I disc, isotropic disc, J disc
Definition: A region of a sarcomere that appears as a light band on each side of the Z disc, comprising a region of the sarcomere where thin (actin) filaments are not overlapped by thick (myosin) filaments; contains actin, troponin, and tropomyosin; each sarcomere includes half of an I band at each end.
Ontology: GO: Cellular Component [GO:0031674]    QuickGO    AmiGO