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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:blood insulin amount
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Accession:VT:0001560 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion, quantity, or volume in whole blood, serum, or plasma of this polypeptide hormone, secreted by beta cells of the pancreas, that promotes glucose utilization, protein synthesis, and the formation and storage of neutral lipids.
Synonyms:related_synonym: blood insulin level



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  vertebrate trait 140991
    organism trait 89934
      homeostasis trait 31509
        blood homeostasis trait 28551
          blood molecular composition trait 26383
            blood hormone amount 204
              blood insulin amount 0
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