Thyrotropin, beta Subunit
"Thyrotropin, beta Subunit" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The beta subunit of thyroid stimulating hormone, thyrotropin. It is a 112-amino acid glycopolypeptide of about 16 kD. Full biological activity of TSH requires the non-covalently bound heterodimers of an alpha and a beta subunit.
| Descriptor ID |
D037322
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.699.631.525.883.500 D12.644.548.691.525.883.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Thyrotropin, beta Subunit- Thyrotropin, beta Subunit
- Thyrotropin, beta Chain
- Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, beta Subunit
- TSHB Gene Product
- Thyrotropin-beta
- Thyrotropin beta
- TSH, beta Subunit
- TSH-beta
- TSH beta
- TSH, beta Chain
- Thyrotropin, beta Polypeptide Chain
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