AmiGO 2: Term Details for "blood microparticle" (GO:0072562)

Accession: GO:0072562
Name: blood microparticle
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: cell membrane microparticle
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A phospholipid microvesicle that is derived from any of several cell types, such as platelets, blood cells, endothelial cells, or others, and contains membrane receptors as well as other proteins characteristic of the parental cell. Microparticles are heterogeneous in size, and are characterized as microvesicles free of nucleic acids. Source: GOC:BHF, GOC:mah, PMID:16373184
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0072562 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
blood microparticle	BFO:0000050	extracellular space (GO:0005615)
blood microparticle	RO:0002162	Eumetazoa (NCBITaxon:6072)
blood microparticle	is_a	cellular anatomical entity (GO:0110165)

subject	relation	object
endothelial microparticle (GO:0072563)	is_a	blood microparticle
blood microparticle formation (GO:0072564)	RO:0002592	blood microparticle

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