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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 5
    organ system trait 5
      immune system trait 1
        immune system morphology trait 0
          immune system cell morphology trait 0
            leukocyte morphology trait 0
              mast cell morphology trait 0
                mast cell quantity 0
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  vertebrate trait 5
    organ system trait 5
      hemolymphoid system trait 1
        hemolymphoid system morphology trait 0
          hematopoietic system morphology trait 0
            blood cell morphology trait 0
              blood cell quantity 0
                leukocyte quantity 0
                  mast cell quantity 0
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