AmiGO 2: Term Details for "natural killer cell activation" (GO:0030101)

Accession: GO:0030101
Name: natural killer cell activation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: NK cell activation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The change in morphology and behavior of a natural killer cell in response to a cytokine, chemokine, cellular ligand, or soluble factor. Source: GOC:mgi_curators, ISBN:0781735149
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0030101 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to natural killer cell activation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to natural killer cell activation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for natural killer cell activation (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
natural killer cell activation	is_a	lymphocyte activation (GO:0046649)
natural killer cell activation	RO:0004009	natural killer cell (CL:0000623)

subject	relation	object
negative regulation of natural killer cell activation (GO:0032815)	RO:0002212	natural killer cell activation
establishment of natural killer cell polarity (GO:0001770)	BFO:0000050	natural killer cell activation
positive regulation of natural killer cell activation (GO:0032816)	RO:0002213	natural killer cell activation
regulation of natural killer cell activation (GO:0032814)	RO:0002211	natural killer cell activation
natural killer cell activation involved in immune response (GO:0002323)	is_a	natural killer cell activation
natural killer cell proliferation (GO:0001787)	is_a	natural killer cell activation
natural killer cell differentiation (GO:0001779)	is_a	natural killer cell activation

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