Term Information

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
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of microvesicle (GO:1990742)
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microvesicle [is_a relation] is_a  extracellular vesicle (GO:1903561)
Children of microvesicle (GO:1990742)
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epididymosome (GO:0098875) [is_a relation] is_a  microvesicle
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