Term Information

Accession
GO:0051132
Name
NK T cell activation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
NK T lymphocyte activation, NK T-cell activation, NK T-lymphocyte activation, NKT cell activation, NT cell activation, natural T cell activation, natural killer T cell activation
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The change in morphology and behavior of a mature or immature natural killer T cell resulting from exposure to a mitogen, cytokine, chemokine, cellular ligand, or an antigen for which it is specific. Source: PMID:9133426, ISBN:0781735149, PMID:12154375
Comment
Note that NK T cells are a distinct lineage of T cells expressing natural killer cell markers and having T cell receptors characterized by the usage of a restricted repetoire of variable region gene segments.
History
See term history for GO:0051132 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of NK T cell activation (GO:0051132)
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NK T cell activation [is_a relation] is_a  alpha-beta T cell activation (GO:0046631)
Children of NK T cell activation (GO:0051132)
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NK T cell activation involved in immune response (GO:0002288) [is_a relation] is_a  NK T cell activation
positive regulation of NK T cell activation (GO:0051135) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  NK T cell activation
NK T cell proliferation (GO:0001866) [is_a relation] is_a  NK T cell activation
negative regulation of NK T cell activation (GO:0051134) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  NK T cell activation
regulation of NK T cell activation (GO:0051133) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  NK T cell activation
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