Planteome: Term Details for "germinal center formation" (GO:0002467)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0002467
Name: germinal center formation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which germinal centers form. A germinal center is a specialized microenvironment formed when activated B cells enter lymphoid follicles. Germinal centers are the foci for B cell proliferation and somatic hypermutation. Source: GO_REF:0000022, ISBN:081533642X, GOC:jal
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0002467 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to germinal center formation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to germinal center formation.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for germinal center formation.
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BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000003 occurrent
GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0032502 developmental process
GO:0002376 immune system process
BFO:0000015 process
GO:0050896 response to stimulus
GO:0048856 anatomical structure development
GO:0006955 immune response
GO:0002250 adaptive immune response
GO:0009653 anatomical structure morphogenesis
GO:0002460 adaptive immune response based on somatic recombination of immune receptors built from immunoglobulin superfamily domains
GO:0048646 anatomical structure formation involved in morphogenesis
GO:0002467 germinal center formation
GO:0002635 negative regulation of germinal center formation
GO:0002636 positive regulation of germinal center formation
GO:0002634 regulation of germinal center formation

Parents of germinal center formation (GO:0002467)

subject	relation	object
germinal center formation	is_a	adaptive immune response based on somatic recombination of immune receptors built from immunoglobulin superfamily domains (GO:0002460)
germinal center formation	is_a	anatomical structure formation involved in morphogenesis (GO:0048646)

Children of germinal center formation (GO:0002467)

subject	relation	object
negative regulation of germinal center formation (GO:0002635)	RO:0002212	germinal center formation
positive regulation of germinal center formation (GO:0002636)	RO:0002213	germinal center formation
regulation of germinal center formation (GO:0002634)	RO:0002211	germinal center formation