AmiGO 2: Term Details for "positive regulation of synaptic plasticity" (GO:0031915)

Accession: GO:0031915
Name: positive regulation of synaptic plasticity
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: up regulation of synaptic plasticity, up-regulation of synaptic plasticity, upregulation of synaptic plasticity, activation of synaptic plasticity, stimulation of synaptic plasticity
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A process that increases synaptic plasticity, the ability of synapses to change as circumstances require. They may alter function, such as increasing or decreasing their sensitivity, or they may increase or decrease in actual numbers. Source: GOC:mah
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0031915 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to positive regulation of synaptic plasticity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to positive regulation of synaptic plasticity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for positive regulation of synaptic plasticity (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
positive regulation of synaptic plasticity	is_a	regulation of synaptic plasticity (GO:0048167)

subject	relation	object
positive regulation of synaptic metaplasticity (GO:0031918)	is_a	positive regulation of synaptic plasticity
positive regulation of synaptic plasticity by chemical substance (GO:0051914)	is_a	positive regulation of synaptic plasticity

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