AmiGO: response to hypoxia Details

Term Information

Accession: GO:0001666
Ontology: biological process
Synonyms: exact: response to hypoxic stress; exact: response to lowered oxygen tension
Definition: 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. [source: GOC:hjd]
Comment: Note that this term should not be confused with 'response to anoxia ; GO:0034059'. Note that in laboratory studies, hypoxia is typically studied at O2 concentrations ranging from 0.1 - 5%.
Subset: None
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