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Term Information

Accession
GO:0044297
Name
cell body
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
cell soma
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The portion of a cell bearing surface projections such as axons, dendrites, cilia, or flagella that includes the nucleus, but excludes all cell projections. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment
Note that 'cell body' and 'cell soma' are not used in the literature for cells that lack projections, nor for some cells (e.g. yeast with mating projections) that do have projections.
History
See term history for GO:0044297 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of cell body (GO:0044297)
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cell body [is_a relation] is_a  cellular anatomical entity (GO:0110165)
Children of cell body (GO:0044297)
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lateral shield (GO:0097569) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cell body
cell body membrane (GO:0044298) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cell body
somatic portion of tanycyte (GO:1990017) [is_a relation] is_a  cell body
neuronal cell body (GO:0043025) [is_a relation] is_a  cell body
FBbt
00005107
FMA
67301
Wikipedia
Cell_body