AmiGO 2: Term Details for "contact inhibition" (GO:0060242)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0060242
Name: contact inhibition
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: detection of cell density by contact stimulus, detection of cell density by contact stimulus involved in contact inhibition
Alternate IDs: GO:0060246, GO:0060248
Definition: The series of events in which information about the density of cells in a population is received by direct cell-cell contact and is converted into a molecular signal, resulting in the cessation of cell growth or proliferation. Source: GOC:dph, PMID:17376520
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0060242 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to contact inhibition (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to contact inhibition (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for contact inhibition (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0050896 response to stimulus
GO:0051606 detection of stimulus
GO:0009607 response to biotic stimulus
GO:0009595 detection of biotic stimulus
GO:0060245 detection of cell density
GO:0060242 contact inhibition
GO:0060243 negative regulation of cell growth involved in contact inhibition
GO:0060244 negative regulation of cell proliferation involved in contact inhibition

Parents of contact inhibition (GO:0060242)

subject	relation	object
contact inhibition	is_a	detection of cell density (GO:0060245)

Children of contact inhibition (GO:0060242)

subject	relation	object
negative regulation of cell proliferation involved in contact inhibition (GO:0060244)	BFO:0000050	contact inhibition
negative regulation of cell growth involved in contact inhibition (GO:0060243)	BFO:0000050	contact inhibition

Wikipedia: Contact_inhibition