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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:islet of Langerhans morphology trait
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Accession:VT:0005215 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurable or observable characteristic related to the shape, structure, color or pattern of the cellular masses consisting of several to several hundred cells in the interstitial tissue of the pancreas; they are composed of five different cell types that make up the endocrine portion of the pancreas.



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  vertebrate trait 5
    organ system trait 5
      endocrine/exocrine system trait 0
        gland morphology trait 0
          pancreas morphology trait 0
            endocrine pancreas morphology trait 0
              islet of Langerhans morphology trait 0
                pancreatic alpha cell morphology trait 0
                pancreatic beta cell morphology trait + 0
                pancreatic delta cell morphology trait 0
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