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Transforming growth factor

Index Transforming growth factor

Transforming growth factor (sometimes referred to as Tumor growth factor, or TGF) is used to describe two classes of polypeptide growth factors, TGFα and TGFβ. [1]

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Acanthosis nigricans

Acanthosis nigricans is a brown to black, poorly defined, velvety hyperpigmentation of the skin.

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Acceleron Pharma

Acceleron Pharma, Inc. is a public American "clinical stage biopharmaceutical company" based in Boston, Massachusetts with a broad focus on developing medicines that regulate the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) superfamily of proteins, which play fundamental roles in the growth and repair of cells and tissues such as red blood cells, muscle, bone, and blood vessels.

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Autologous conditioned plasma

Autologous conditioned plasma (ACP) is a platelet-rich plasma that is extracted from autologous blood using centrifugation.

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Bone morphogenetic protein 7

Bone morphogenetic protein 7 or BMP7 (also known as osteogenic protein-1 or OP-1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BMP7 gene.

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Bowed tendon

Tendinitis/tendonitis is inflammation of a tendon.

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Carl-Henrik Heldin

Carl-Henrik Heldin (born 9 August 1952) is a Swedish molecular biologist and medical researcher.

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Cellular differentiation

In developmental biology, cellular differentiation is the process where a cell changes from one cell type to another.

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Christoph Westphal

Christoph Westphal, M.D., Ph.D., is a biomedical entrepreneur.

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Chronic wound

A chronic wound is a wound that does not heal in an orderly set of stages and in a predictable amount of time the way most wounds do; wounds that do not heal within three months are often considered chronic.

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Co-receptor

A co-receptor is a cell surface receptor that binds a signalling molecule in addition to a primary receptor in order to facilitate ligand recognition and initiate biological processes, such as entry of a pathogen into a host cell.

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Diabetic foot ulcer

Diabetic foot ulcer is a major complication of diabetes mellitus, and probably the major component of the diabetic foot.

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Embryokine

Embryokines (Greek: embryuon "embryo" + kinōs "movement") are regulatory molecules produced by the reproductive tract that modulate embryonic development.

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Epidermis

The epidermis is the outer layer of the three layers that make up the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis.

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Galecto Biotech

Galecto Biotech is a Swedish private biotechnology company that has developed a galectin-3 inhibitor that would prevent fibrosis.

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Gene therapy for osteoarthritis

Gene transfer strategies for medical management of the Osteoarthritis have attracted the attention of scientists due to the complex pathology of this chronic disease.

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Glial scar

Glial scar formation (gliosis) is a reactive cellular process involving astrogliosis that occurs after injury to the central nervous system.

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Gliogenesis

Gliogenesis is the generation of non-neuronal glia populations derived from multipotent neural stem cells.

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Growth factor

A growth factor is a naturally occurring substance capable of stimulating cellular growth, proliferation, healing, and cellular differentiation.

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Hematopoietic stem cell

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the stem cells that give rise to other blood cells.

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HHV Latency Associated Transcript

HHV Latency Associated Transcript (HHV LAT) is a length of RNA which accumulates in cells hosting long-term, or latent, Human Herpes Virus (HHV) infections.

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Hip dysplasia (canine)

In dogs, hip dysplasia is an abnormal formation of the hip socket that, in its more severe form, can eventually cause crippling lameness and painful arthritis of the joints.

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Index of biochemistry articles

Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms.

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Induced stem cells

Induced stem cells (iSC) are stem cells derived from somatic, reproductive, pluripotent or other cell types by deliberate epigenetic reprogramming.

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Latent TGF-beta binding protein

The latent TGF-beta binding proteins (LTBP) are a family of carrier proteins.

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List of medical abbreviations: T

Category:Lists of medical abbreviations.

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List of MeSH codes (D12.644)

This is part of the list of the "D" codes for MeSH.

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List of MeSH codes (D23)

This is the fourth part of the list of the "D" codes for MeSH.

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List of proteins

Note that there exists a category for proteins that is more complete than this list. A list of proteins (and protein complexes).

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Loeys–Dietz syndrome

Loeys–Dietz syndrome (LDS) is an autosomal dominant genetic connective tissue disorder.

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Marfan syndrome

Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue.

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Mesangial cell

Mesangial cells are specialised cells in the kidney that make up the mesangium of the glomerulus.

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Mesenchymal stem cell

Mesenchymal stem cells are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types, including osteoblasts (bone cells), chondrocytes (cartilage cells), myocytes (muscle cells) and adipocytes (fat cells which give rise to marrow adipose tissue).

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Mesothelioma

Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that develops from the thin layer of tissue that covers many of the internal organs (known as the mesothelium).

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Metastatic breast cancer

Metastatic breast cancer, also referred to as metastases, advanced breast cancer, secondary tumours, secondaries or stage 4 breast cancer, is a stage of breast cancer where the disease has spread to distant sites beyond the axillary lymph nodes.

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Motor neuron

A motor neuron (or motoneuron) is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon (fiber) projects to the spinal cord or outside of the spinal cord to directly or indirectly control effector organs, mainly muscles and glands.

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Mouse model of colorectal and intestinal cancer

Mouse models of colorectal cancer and intestinal cancer are experimental systems in which mice are genetically manipulated, fed a modified diet, or challenged with chemicals to develop malignancies in the gastrointestinal tract.

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Mouse models of breast cancer metastasis

Breast cancer metastatic mouse models are experimental approaches in which mice are genetically manipulated to develop a mammary tumor leading to distant focal lesions of mammary epithelium.

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MSin3 interaction domain

The mSin3 interaction domain (SID) is an interaction domain which is present on several transcriptional repressor proteins including TGFβ (transforming growth factor β) and Mad.

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Myositis ossificans

Myositis ossificans comprises two syndromes characterized by heterotopic ossification (calcification) of muscle.

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OGN (gene)

Osteoglycin (also called mimecan), encoded by the OGN gene, is a human protein.

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Paracrine signalling

Paracrine signaling is a form of cell-to-cell communication in which a cell produces a signal to induce changes in nearby cells, altering the behavior of those cells.

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Pericyte

Pericytes are contractile cells that wrap around the endothelial cells that line the capillaries and venules throughout the body.

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Proliferative vitreoretinopathy

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) is a disease that develops as a complication of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

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Regulatory B cells

Regulatory B cells (Bregs) represent a small population of B cells which participates in immunomodulations and in suppression of immune responses.

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RHOA

Ras homolog gene family, member A (RhoA) is a small GTPase protein in the Rho family.

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Skin

Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates.

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Syndecan

Syndecans are single transmembrane domain proteins that are thought to act as coreceptors, especially for G protein-coupled receptors.

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Systemic scleroderma

Systemic scleroderma, also called diffuse scleroderma or systemic sclerosis, is an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue.

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TGF

TGF may refer to: In entertainment.

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TGF alpha

Transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-α) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TGFA gene.

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Transforming growth factor beta

Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) is a multifunctional cytokine belonging to the transforming growth factor superfamily that includes four different isoforms (TGF-β 1 to 4, HGNC symbols TGFB1, TGFB2, TGFB3, TGFB4) and many other signaling proteins produced by all white blood cell lineages.

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Tubuloglomerular feedback

In the physiology of the kidney, tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) is a feedback system inside the kidneys.

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Von Willebrand factor

Von Willebrand factor (vWF) is a blood glycoprotein involved in hemostasis.

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13-Hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid

13-Hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid (13-HODE) is the commonly used term for 13(S)-hydroxy-9Z,11E-octadecadienoic acid (13(S)-HODE).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transforming_growth_factor

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