"Thrombospondin 1" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An extracellular matrix glycoprotein from platelets and a variety of normal and transformed cells of both mesenchymal and epithelial origin. Thrombospondin-1 is believed to play a role in cell migration and proliferation, during embryogenesis and wound repair. Also, it has been studied for its use as a potential regulator of tumor growth and metastasis.
| Descriptor ID |
D019700
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.395.550.895.800 D12.776.543.550.895.800
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