Microparticle - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Microparticle;

NCIt synonyms : Circulating Microvesicle; Microvesicle; Cell-Derived Microparticle; Circulating Microparticle; Ectosome;

NCIt definition : A small, membrane-bound vesicle between 100 nm to 1000 nm in size found in the circulatory system. These vesicles are plasma membrane fragments shed from cells. The protein composition is similar to that of the cell that shed the particle.;

Details

Origin ID

C120025;

UMLS CUI

C2350307;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Cell [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Cell-Derived microparticles [MeSH concept]
- Cell-Derived microparticles [MeSH Descriptor]
- extracellular vesicle [GO term]
- microvesicle [GO term]
Semantic type(s)
- Cell Component [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Cell-Derived microparticles [MeSH Descriptor]
- Cell-Derived microparticles [MeSH concept]
- microvesicle [GO term]
concept_is_in_subset
- CTRP Biomarker Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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