See Also: macrophage colony-stimulating factor(medicine)
receptors, macrophage colony-stimulating factor(medicine)
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor(medicine)
receptors, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor(medicine)
Colony-stimulating factor(health)
Colony-stimulating factor(medicine)
CSF (colony-stimulating factor)(health)
Factor, colony-stimulating(health)
multi-colony-stimulating factor(medicine)
granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor(medicine)

macrophage colony-stimulating factor (medicine) and llama (iou)


macrophage colony-stimulating factor (medicine)


macrophage colony-stimulating factor
<growth factor> A glycoprotein growth factor that causes the committed cell line to proliferate and mature into macrophages.

A cytokine synthesised by mesenchymal cells that stimulates pluripotent stem cells of bone marrow into differentiating towards the production of monocytes (mononuclear phagocytes).

The compound stimulates the survival, proliferation, and differentiation of haematopoietic cells of the monocyte-macrophage series. It is a disulfide-bonded glycoprotein dimer with a mw of 70 kD and binds to a single class of high affinity receptor which is identical to the product of the c-fms proto-oncogene.

See: colony-stimulating factors.

Chemical name: Colony-stimulating factor 1

Acronym: M-CSF


llama (iou)



llama noun. E17.
[Spanish from Quechua.]
A S. American cud-chewing mammal, Llama glama, which belongs to the same family as camels but is smaller and humpless, and is found only domesticated as a beast of burden and a source of soft woolly fur and meat. E17.
The wool of the llama; a material made from this. M19.