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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:potassium chloride response/sensitivity measurement
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Accession:CMO:0002461 term browser browse the term
Definition:Measurement of an organism's, organ's, tissue's or cell's capacity to respond, such as by a change in activity, state or condition, to potassium chloride, the salt of the potassium cation (K+) and the chlorine/chloride anion (Cl-). Potassium chloride is used as an eletroylyte replenisher and has mild vasoconstrictive properties when applied directly to blood vessels.
Synonyms:related_synonym: KCl response/sensitivity measurement
 xref: CHEBI:32588



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