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CLINICAL MEASUREMENT - ANNOTATIONS

The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:liver enzyme measurement
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Accession:CMO:0001117 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurement related to an enzyme, a protein that acts as a catalyst, increasing the rate at which a chemical reaction occurs without itself being destroyed or altered upon completion of the reaction, in the liver or in a sample of liver tissue. The liver is the large, dark-red organ located in the cranial portion of the abdomen of vertebrates, just behind or below the diaphragm, the functions of which include storage and filtration of blood; secretion of bile; detoxification of noxious substances; conversion of sugars into glycogen; synthesis and breakdown of fats and temporary storage of fatty acids; and synthesis of serum proteins.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: hepatic enzyme measurement
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  clinical measurement 2369
    organ measurement 485
      liver measurement 39
        liver protein/peptide measurement 0
          liver enzyme measurement 0
            liver glucokinase level 0
            liver glucose-6-phosphatase level 0
            liver ornithine decarboxylase activity 0
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