Planteome: Term Details for "basophil activation" (GO:0045575)

Accession: GO:0045575
Name: basophil activation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The change in morphology and behavior of a basophil resulting from exposure to a cytokine, chemokine, soluble factor, or to (at least in mammals) an antigen which the basophil has specifically bound via IgE bound to Fc-epsilonRI receptors. Source: GOC:mgi_curators, ISBN:0781735149
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0045575 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to basophil activation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to basophil activation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for basophil activation.
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subject	relation	object
basophil activation	is_a	granulocyte activation (GO:0036230)

subject	relation	object
basophil activation involved in immune response (GO:0002276)	is_a	basophil activation