AmiGO 2: Term Details for "macrophage activation involved in immune response" (GO:0002281)

Accession: GO:0002281
Name: macrophage activation involved in immune response
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: macrophage polarization involved in immune response, macrophage activation during immune response
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A change in morphology and behavior of a macrophage resulting from exposure to a cytokine, chemokine, cellular ligand, or soluble factor, leading to the initiation or perpetuation of an immune response. Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:add
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0002281 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to macrophage activation involved in immune response (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to macrophage activation involved in immune response (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for macrophage activation involved in immune response (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
macrophage activation involved in immune response	is_a	macrophage activation (GO:0042116)
macrophage activation involved in immune response	BFO:0000050	immune response (GO:0006955)
macrophage activation involved in immune response	BFO:0000050	myeloid cell activation involved in immune response (GO:0002275)
macrophage activation involved in immune response	is_a	leukocyte activation involved in immune response (GO:0002366)

subject	relation	object
microglial cell activation involved in immune response (GO:0002282)	is_a	macrophage activation involved in immune response

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