AmiGO 2: Term Details for "basophil activation involved in immune response" (GO:0002276)

Accession: GO:0002276
Name: basophil activation involved in immune response
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: basophil activation during immune response
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A change in morphology and behavior of a basophil resulting from exposure to a cytokine, chemokine, soluble factor, or to (at least in mammals) an antigen which the basophil has specifically bound via IgE bound to Fc-epsilonRI receptors, leading to the initiation or perpetuation of an immune response. Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:add
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0002276 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to basophil activation involved in immune response (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to basophil activation involved in immune response (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for basophil activation involved in immune response (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
basophil activation involved in immune response	BFO:0000050	immune response (GO:0006955)
basophil activation involved in immune response	is_a	leukocyte activation involved in immune response (GO:0002366)
basophil activation involved in immune response	BFO:0000050	myeloid cell activation involved in immune response (GO:0002275)
basophil activation involved in immune response	is_a	basophil activation (GO:0045575)

subject	relation	object
basophil degranulation (GO:0002561)	BFO:0000050	basophil activation involved in immune response

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