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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 glucagon amount
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Accession:VT:0002695 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion, quantity, or volume in whole blood, serum, or plasma of a polypeptide hormone secreted by the pancreas that increases the blood glucose level by stimulating the liver to change stored glycogen to glucose; opposes the action of insulin.



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  vertebrate trait 2888
    organism trait 1150
      homeostasis trait 694
        blood homeostasis trait 534
          blood molecular composition trait 534
            blood hormone amount 162
              blood glucagon amount 0
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