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Accession
GO:0043029
Name
T cell homeostasis
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
T lymphocyte homeostasis, T-cell homeostasis, T-lymphocyte homeostasis
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The process of regulating the proliferation and elimination of T cells such that the total number of T cells within a whole or part of an organism is stable over time in the absence of an outside stimulus. Source: GOC:mgi_curators, ISBN:0781735149
Comment
Note that this term represents the return of T cell levels to stable numbers following an immune response as well as the proliferation and elimination of T cells required to maintain stable numbers in the absence of an outside stimulus.
History
See term history for GO:0043029 at QuickGO
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Subset
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Parents of T cell homeostasis (GO:0043029)
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T cell homeostasis [RO:0012003 relation] RO:0012003  T cell (CL:0000084)
T cell homeostasis [is_a relation] is_a  lymphocyte homeostasis (GO:0002260)
T cell homeostasis [RO:0002162 relation] RO:0002162  Vertebrata (NCBITaxon:7742)
Children of T cell homeostasis (GO:0043029)
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T cell homeostatic proliferation (GO:0001777) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  T cell homeostasis
activation-induced cell death of T cells (GO:0006924) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  T cell homeostasis
activated T cell autonomous cell death (GO:0070238) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  T cell homeostasis
CD8-positive, alpha-beta T cell homeostasis (GO:0160165) [is_a relation] is_a  T cell homeostasis
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