Table 1

Number of ESTs and keywords characterizing the tissue types
Tissues
 Keywords
 INF
 DIZ
 ADLT
Stem_cell
 stem hematopoietic
 -
 -
 1,592
Embryo
 whole body trophoblast
 10,346

Placenta
 placent
 110,502
 43,395
 -
Bone
 bone osteo ewings
 -
 16,551
 7,407
Cartilage
 cartilage
 -
 5,017
 5,224
Ear
 cochlea ear
 14,966

Eye
 eye retina retino cornea ocular
 6,370
 28,235
 30,036
Skin
 skin keratinocyt melanoma melanocytic psoriasis derm
 -
 93,511
 10,457
Cardio-vascular
 Heart
 myocardium valve heart cardiac
 20,979
8,263

Vascular
 artery vein aorta endotheli blood vascul hemopoietic venous venae huvec platelet
 -
 -
 39,737
Head_neck
 mouth tongue tonsil head oral cavity gingiva
 5,817
 2,628
 5,787
Muscle_skeletal
 skeletal rhabdomyosarcom
 -
 5,442
 40,819
Soft_tissue
 adipose peritoneum omentum synovium fibroblast connective synovial epithelioid fibrosarcoma liposarcoma
 3,721
 4,182
 5,692
Endocrine
 adrenal
 adrenal
 -
 16,620
 10,483

thyroid
 thyroid parathyroid
 -
 4,294
 5,125

pineal
 pineal pituitary
 -
 12,155
 17,458
Exocrines_breast
 breast mammary nipple areola
 -
 31,204
 22,379
Respiratory
 lung pleura trachea bronchi larynx pharynx nasal nasopharyn laryngal bronchi laryngeal olfact
 4,406
 82,164
 38,108
Digestive
 liver
 liver hepato bile gallbladder
 90,480
 38,103
 43,846

saliv
 salivary parotid paratid
 -
 11,193
 -

pancreas
 pancrea langerhans
 -
 61,178
 17,042

stomach
 stomach gastric gastro
 -
 23,580
 -

esophagus
 esophag buccal
 -
 3,807
 -

bowel
 bowel intestine appendix cecum colon duodenu ileum jejunum colit
 -
 70,282
 9,933
Genitourinary
 femal_ovary
 ovary oviduct ovarian
 -
 65,196
 6,106

femal_uterus
 uterus endometrium pregnant exocervical
 -
 10,5749
 985

femal_others
 cervix fallopian
 -
 29,380
 -

testis
 testis epididym seminal vesicle
 -
 25,484
 6,034

prostate
 prostate
 -
 55,609
 22,785

Urinaire kidney
 kidney wilms
 1,427
 57,891
 13,776

Urinaire others
 bladder ureter urethra
 -
 20,736
 -

others
 gonad genitourina wolffian germ germinal mesonephros Mullerian paramesonephros urogenital
 -
 11,930
 4,341
Lymphoreticular
 immuno
 leukocyte monocyt macrophag t-cell lymph b-cell bone marrow leukemi leukaemia mononuclear myelo lymphoblastoid T-lymphoc B-lymphoc
 -
 75,877
 72,618

spleen
 spleen
 93,645
 -
 4,460

thymus
 thymus
 4,680
 -
 -
Central Nervous System
 brain
 brain amygdala medulla oblongata cerebrum cortex frontal occipital hippocampus cerebellum corpus callosum basal ganglia striatum globus pallidus putamen caudate substantia nigra subthalamic tectum prosencephalon diencephalon thalamus corpora mesencephalon mesencephali quadrigemina glioblastoma astrocyt neuron cranial dura mater
 108,992
 99,576
 61,843

dorsal root ganglion
 dorsal root
 -
 -
 1,520
Peripheric Nervous System
 sympathetic nerve nervous spinal neuronal dendrit
 -
 18,360
 22,456
Neural system
 neuro
 -
 26,463
 -
NO TISSU_Sp
68
 662
 88,540

'DIZ' is for disease tissues, 'INF' for infant and foetal healthy tissues and 'ADLT' for adult healthy tissues. '-' represents categories with less than 1,000 ESTs

Mégy et al. Genome Biology 2003 4:P1   doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-p1