"Receptors, Transferrin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Membrane glycoproteins found in high concentrations on iron-utilizing cells. They specifically bind iron-bearing transferrin, are endocytosed with its ligand and then returned to the cell surface where transferrin without its iron is released.
| Descriptor ID |
D011990
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.157.905.500 D12.776.543.750.800
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