AmiGO 2: Term Details for "microvesicle" (GO:1990742)

Accession: GO:1990742
Name: microvesicle
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: ectosome, extracellular microvesicle, shedding vesicle
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: An extracellular vesicle released from the plasma membrane and ranging in size from about 100 nm to 1000 nm. Source: GOC:vesicles, Wikipedia:Microvesicles, PMID:24009894, PMID:22418571
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:1990742 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to microvesicle (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to microvesicle (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for microvesicle (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
microvesicle	is_a	extracellular vesicle (GO:1903561)

subject	relation	object
epididymosome (GO:0098875)	is_a	microvesicle

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