The Mouse Adult Gross Anatomy Ontology and Mammalian Phenotype Ontology are downloaded weekly from the Mouse Genome Informatics databases at Jackson Laboratories (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html). For more information about these ontologies, see the MGI Publications Page at http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/other/publications.shtml.
reduction in the amount of glutamic acid (2-aminopentanedioic acid), a non-essential alpha-amino used in the biosynthesis of proteins; its anion form, glutamate, is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system and also serves as the metabolic precursor of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an inhibitory neurotransmitter