Cattle Trait Details: Adrenocorticotropic hormone level

QTLdb Trait Hierarchy

Trait Class:	Health
Trait Type:	Blood parameters
Trait Name:	Adrenocorticotropic hormone level
Trait ID:	7040
Abbreviation:	ACTH
Custom Name:	ACTH level
Related / Reported trait: (Figures in parenthesis are the number of data associated with)	Adrenocorticotropic hormone level (34)
Description:	Amount in serum of ACTH, a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that stimulates the secretion of adrenal cortical steroids
Measurement:	n/a
Scale/Unit:	ug/L
Comments:	n/a

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Links to Formal Trait Ontology

Vertebrate Trait Ontology:	[VT:0002664] Blood adrenocorticotropin amount
Product Trait Ontology:	(n/a)
Clinical Measurement Ontology:	(n/a)

The Vertebrate Trait (VT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to the morphology, physiology, or development of vertebrate organisms
The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO) is designed to be used to standardize morphological and physiological measurement records generated from clinical and model organism research and health programs.
Product Trait (PT) Ontology is a controlled vocabulary for the description of traits (measurable or observable characteristics) pertaining to products produced by or obtained from the body of an agricultural animal or bird maintained for use and profit.

REFERENCE
Park CA, Bello SM, Smith CL, Hu ZL, Munzenmaier DH, Nigam R, Smith JR, Shimoyama M, Eppig JT, Reecy JM. (2013) The Vertebrate Trait Ontology: a controlled vocabulary for the annotation of trait data across species. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013, 4(1):13.