response to hypoxia

Term ID

GO:0001666

Synonyms

• response to hypoxic stress
• response to intermittent hypoxia
• response to lowered oxygen tension
• response to sustained hypoxia

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 a stimulus indicating lowered oxygen tension. Hypoxia, defined as a decline in O2 levels below normoxic levels of 20.8 - 20.95%, results in metabolic adaptation at both the cellular and organismal level.

References

Ontology

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