The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
Determination of the number of mononuclear cells that secrete (i.e. produce and release) interferon gamma (IFNG), found in a specified sample of spleen, the highly vascular lymphoid organ which serves to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes. Ifng is a member of the type II interferon family which is a soluble cytokine with antiviral, immunoregulatory and anti-tumor properties and functions as a potent activator of macrophages.