AmiGO 2: Term Details for "muscle atrophy" (GO:0014889)

Accession: GO:0014889
Name: muscle atrophy
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A process, occurring in the muscle, that is characterized by a decrease in protein content, fiber diameter, force production and fatigue resistance in response to different conditions such as starvation, aging and disuse. Source: GOC:mtg_muscle
Comment: GO:0014889 should only be used for annotation when muscle atrophy is a normal physiological process and not a disease process.
History: See term history for GO:0014889 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to muscle atrophy (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to muscle atrophy (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for muscle atrophy (excluding "regulates").

Include "regulates"
For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
muscle atrophy	is_a	muscle adaptation (GO:0043500)

subject	relation	object
striated muscle atrophy (GO:0014891)	is_a	muscle atrophy
negative regulation of muscle atrophy (GO:0014736)	RO:0002212	muscle atrophy
regulation of muscle atrophy (GO:0014735)	RO:0002211	muscle atrophy
smooth muscle atrophy (GO:0014890)	is_a	muscle atrophy
positive regulation of muscle atrophy (GO:0014737)	RO:0002213	muscle atrophy