AmiGO 2: Term Details for "leukocyte homeostasis" (GO:0001776)

Accession: GO:0001776
Name: leukocyte homeostasis
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: immune cell homeostasis, leucocyte homeostasis
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process of regulating the proliferation and elimination of cells of the immune system such that the total number of cells of a particular cell type within a whole or part of an organism is stable over time in the absence of an outside stimulus. Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:add
Comment: Note that this term represents the return of immune system cell levels to stable numbers following an immune response as well as the proliferation and elimination of cells of the immune system required to maintain stable numbers in the absence of an outside stimulus.
History: See term history for GO:0001776 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to leukocyte homeostasis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to leukocyte homeostasis (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for leukocyte homeostasis (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
leukocyte homeostasis	is_a	homeostasis of number of cells (GO:0048872)
leukocyte homeostasis	is_a	immune system process (GO:0002376)
leukocyte homeostasis	RO:0002162	Vertebrata (NCBITaxon:7742)
leukocyte homeostasis	RO:0012003	leukocyte (CL:0000738)

subject	relation	object
eosinophil homeostasis (GO:1990959)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
dendritic cell homeostasis (GO:0036145)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
neutrophil homeostasis (GO:0001780)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
lymphocyte homeostasis (GO:0002260)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
monocyte homeostasis (GO:0035702)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
mast cell homeostasis (GO:0033023)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
basophil homeostasis (GO:1990960)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis
macrophage homeostasis (GO:0061519)	is_a	leukocyte homeostasis

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