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VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:mast cell physiology trait
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Accession:VT:0002423 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurable or observable characteristic related to the function of or processes in the granulated cells found in most tissues and which contain large amounts of histamine and heparin in granules.
Synonyms:exact_synonym: mast cell function
 xref: ATOL:0000410



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            blood cell physiology trait 1
              leukocyte physiology trait 1
                mast cell physiology trait 0
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