AmiGO 2: Term Details for "insulin secretion" (GO:0030073)

Accession: GO:0030073
Name: insulin secretion
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The regulated release of proinsulin from secretory granules accompanied by cleavage of proinsulin to form mature insulin. In vertebrates, insulin is secreted from B granules in the B cells of the vertebrate pancreas and from insulin-producing cells in insects. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:mah
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0030073 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to insulin secretion (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to insulin secretion (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for insulin secretion (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
insulin secretion	is_a	protein secretion (GO:0009306)
insulin secretion	is_a	peptide hormone secretion (GO:0030072)
insulin secretion	RO:0004009	insulin gene translation product (PR:000009054)
insulin secretion	RO:0002162	Eumetazoa (NCBITaxon:6072)

subject	relation	object
insulin secretion involved in cellular response to glucose stimulus (GO:0035773)	is_a	insulin secretion
negative regulation of insulin secretion (GO:0046676)	RO:0002212	insulin secretion
regulation of insulin secretion (GO:0050796)	RO:0002211	insulin secretion
endocrine pancreas (UBERON:0000016)	RO:0002215	insulin secretion
insulin secreting cell (CL:0000168)	RO:0002215	insulin secretion
positive regulation of insulin secretion (GO:0032024)	RO:0002213	insulin secretion

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