AmiGO 2: Term Details for "brush border" (GO:0005903)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0005903
Name: brush border
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The dense covering of microvilli on the apical surface of an epithelial cell in tissues such as the intestine, kidney, and choroid plexus; the microvilli aid absorption by increasing the surface area of the cell. Source: ISBN:0815316194, GOC:sl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005903 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_pir
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to brush border (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to brush border (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for brush border (excluding "regulates").

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CARO:0030000 biological entity
CARO:0000000 anatomical entity
UBERON:0001062 anatomical entity
UBERON:0000061 anatomical structure
CARO:0000006 material anatomical entity
UBERON:0010000 multicellular anatomical structure
CARO:0000003 connected anatomical structure
UBERON:0000465 material anatomical entity
UBERON:0000468 multicellular organism
GO:0005575 cellular_component
PR:000050567 protein-containing material entity
UBERON:0000479 tissue
CL:0000000 cell
GO:0110165 cellular anatomical entity
UBERON:0000483 epithelium
GO:0098862 cluster of actin-based cell projections
CL:0000066 epithelial cell
GO:0005903 brush border
GO:0031526 brush border membrane

Parents of brush border (GO:0005903)

subject	relation	object
brush border	BFO:0000050	epithelial cell (CL:0000066)
brush border	RO:0002162	Metazoa (NCBITaxon:33208)
brush border	BFO:0000051	microvillus (GO:0005902)
brush border	is_a	cluster of actin-based cell projections (GO:0098862)

Children of brush border (GO:0005903)

subject	relation	object
brush border membrane (GO:0031526)	BFO:0000050	brush border
brush border assembly (GO:1904970)	RO:0002588	brush border

Wikipedia: Brush_border