Medical Definition of Transforming growth factors
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Hormonally active polypeptides that can induce the transformed phenotype when added to normal, non-transformed cells. They have been found in culture fluids from retrovirally transformed cells and in tumour-derived cells as well as in non-neoplastic sources. Their transforming activities are due to the simultaneous action of two otherwise unrelated factors, transforming growth factor alpha and transforming growth factor beta.
Chemical name: Animal growth regulators, transforming growth factors
(12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transforming Growth Factors
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