Term: blood plasma response to insulin
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Name: blood plasma
Synonyms:
Definition: Portion of organism substance that is the liquid matrix of blood.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005654]
Name: response to insulin
Synonyms: response to insulin stimulus
Definition: Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of an insulin stimulus. Insulin is a polypeptide hormone produced by the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas in mammals, and by the homologous organs of other organisms.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0032868]    QuickGO    AmiGO