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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:blood cystatin C level
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Accession:CMO:0002777 term browser browse the term
Definition:The amount of the protein cystatin C found in a specified sample of blood, the fluid that circulates through the heart, arteries, capillaries and veins carrying nutrients and oxygen to the body tissues and metabolites away from them. Cystatin C is a member of the cystatin superfamily of proteins, is the most abundant extracellular inhibitor of cysteine proteases, and can be found in high concentrations in biological fluids.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: cystatin C measurement
 related_synonym: blood Cst3 level
 xref: EFO:0004617



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    blood measurement 443
      blood chemistry measurement 426
        blood protein measurement 188
          blood cystatin level 0
            blood cystatin C level 0
              plasma cystatin C level 0
              serum cystatin C level 0
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