See Also: transforming growth factors(medicine)
Transforming growth factor(medicine)
transforming growth factor beta(medicine)
Transforming growth factor alpha(medicine)
receptors, transforming growth factor beta(medicine)
pro-transforming growth factor-alpha processing protease(medicine)
growth factors(medicine)
endothelial growth factors(medicine)
insulin-like growth factors(medicine)
nerve growth factors(medicine)

Nilometer (iou) and transforming growth factors (medicine)


Nilometer (iou)



Nilometer noun. E18.
[from NILE + -OMETER, after Greek Neilometrion.]
A graduated pillar or Other vertical surface, serving to indicate the height to which the Nile rises during its annual floods.
Nilo'metric adjective of or pertaining to a Nilometer or the measurement of the height of the Nile E20.

transforming growth factors (medicine)


transforming growth factors
<chemical> 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