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).
Any method by which the level or concentration in a sample of blood of insulin is measured. Insulin is the major fuel-regulating peptide hormone produced by the beta cells of the pancreatic islets of Langerhans.
Comment:
Only for use when the specific method of measuring the hormone, such as ELISA, EIA or RIA, is not given.