thrombospondin

English

Etymology

From thrombin +‎ respond +‎ -in, coined in a 1972 paper by Baenziger et al., named due to its sensitivity to thrombin.

Pronunciation

Noun

thrombospondin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombospondins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of a family of glycoproteins secreted into the extracellular matrix by various types of cell, which play a role in cellular adhesion in processes including thrombocyte aggregation, tumor metastasis, and angiogenesis.

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