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).
This is any condition in which the main influencing factor is phenobarbital, a barbiturate that acts as a nonselective central nervous system depressant. Phenobarbital potentiates GABA action on GABA-A receptors, modulates chloride currents through receptor channels, and inhibits glutamate induced depolarizations.