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VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:mast cell quantity
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Accession:VT:0000336 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion or number of the cells that are found in almost all tissues, containing numerous basophilic granules and capable of releasing large amounts of histamine and heparin upon activation.



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  vertebrate trait 2911
    organ system trait 1991
      immune system trait 54
        immune system morphology trait 42
          immune system cell morphology trait 18
            leukocyte morphology trait 18
              mast cell morphology trait 0
                mast cell quantity 0
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  vertebrate trait 2911
    organ system trait 1991
      hemolymphoid system trait 56
        hemolymphoid system morphology trait 45
          hematopoietic system morphology trait 45
            blood cell morphology trait 21
              blood cell quantity 18
                leukocyte quantity 18
                  mast cell quantity 0
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