"Receptors, TIE" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of structurally-related tyrosine kinase receptors that are expressed predominantly in ENDOTHELIAL CELLS and are essential for development of BLOOD VESSELS (NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC). The name derives from the fact that they are tyrosine kinases that contain Ig and EGF domains.
| Descriptor ID |
D042764
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.913.696.620.682.725.400.925 D12.776.543.750.630.687
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| Concept/Terms |
Receptors, TIE- Receptors, TIE
- TIE Receptors
- Receptor Tyrosine Kinase TIE
- TIE Receptor Family
- Family, TIE Receptor
- Receptor Family, TIE
- TIE Receptor Tyrosine Kinase
- TIE Receptor Tyrosine Kinases
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