Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2
                             
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                    
                                            
	"Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, 
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				One of the six homologous soluble proteins that bind insulin-like growth factors (SOMATOMEDINS) and modulate their mitogenic and metabolic actions at the cellular level.
    
			
			
				
				
					
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							D018971
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							 D12.776.157.420.260 
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Insulin-like growth factors, their binding proteins, and prostate cancer risk: analysis of individual patient data from 12 prospective studies. Ann Intern Med. 2008 Oct 07; 149(7):461-71, W83-8.