Medical Definition of Trk
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Oncogene, from human colon carcinoma, encoding a receptor tyrosine kinase.
The trk gene product is a receptor for NGF, that of the trkB gene the receptor for neurotrophin 4 and BDNF and the trkC gene the receptor for NT 3.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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