defense response
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0006952
- Ontology
- biological process
- Synonyms
- related: antimicrobial peptide activity
- related: defense/immunity protein activity
- alt_id: GO:0002217
- alt_id: GO:0042829
- exact: defence response
- exact: physiological defense response
- Definition
- Reactions, triggered in response to the presence of a foreign body or the occurrence of an injury, which result in restriction of damage to the organism attacked or prevention/recovery from the infection caused by the attack. [source:
GOC:go_curators]
- Comment
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