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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:brain sterol amount
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Accession:VT:0010583 term browser browse the term
Definition:The proportion, quantity, or volume of a steroid with one OH group in the brain, one of the two components of the central nervous system and the center of thought and emotion; controls coordination, bodily activities and the interpretation of information from the senses.



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  vertebrate trait 2911
    organ system trait 1991
      nervous/sensory system trait 172
        nervous system morphology trait 150
          brain morphology trait 59
            brain molecular composition trait 0
              brain sterol amount 0
                brain cholesterol amount 0
                brain phytosterol amount + 0
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  vertebrate trait 2911
    organism trait 1162
      homeostasis trait 700
        molecule homeostasis trait 367
          lipid homeostasis trait 166
            sterol homeostasis trait 110
              sterol amount 110
                brain sterol amount 0
                  brain cholesterol amount 0
                  brain phytosterol amount + 0
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