"Vitellogenins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Phospholipoglycoproteins produced in the fat body of egg-laying animals such as non-mammalian VERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; and others. Vitellogenins are secreted into the HEMOLYMPH, and taken into the OOCYTES by receptor-mediated ENDOCYTOSIS to form the major yolk proteins, VITELLINS. Vitellogenin production is under the regulation of steroid hormones, such as ESTRADIOL and JUVENILE HORMONES in insects.
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D014819
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.093.500.925 D12.776.290.812.500 D12.776.744.925
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