growth factor

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noun

any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.

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Words nearby growth factor

grow on, grow out of, growth, growth cone, growth curve, growth factor, growth fund, growth hormone, growth hormone releasing factor, growth ring, growth shares

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How to use growth factor in a sentence

Nerve Growth Factor was the first of several growth factors discovered by scientists, and these factors are now known to have critical roles in nervous system wiring and also in cancer.
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In 1986, Levi-Montalcini and Cohen were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of growth factors.
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The pathway in worms is called insulin-like growth factor signaling, and once that pathway is suppressed, both milk production stops and the lifespan extends.
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Researchers were finding that microbes produced vitamins, nutrients, and growth factors, vital to ecosystems’ health.
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In 1946, she was granted a fellowship at Washington University where she replicated her earlier work, and eventually won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor.
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It is the steady accretion of detail that may yet be the most damaging factor in the battle for British hearts and minds.
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It is very popular in Southeast Asia and has had massive growth.
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Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.
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The quality of the music is a major factor in this recent surge.
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Their clear priorities : faster economic growth and promoting upward mobility for the middle and working classes.
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Water itself is of course essential to the growth of every plant, but the benefits of Irrigation reach far beyond this.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
Potatoes also are extensively planted, and I never saw a more vigorous growth.
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It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.
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These figures exemplify the material growth of industrial Scotland in the forty years that have passed.
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It was a beautiful sight, those rows of small trees with their large, glossy leaves, shut in by woods of a larger growth.
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British Dictionary definitions for growth factor

growth factor

noun

any of several substances present in serum that induce growth of cells. Excessive amounts of growth factor may be associated with the production of cancer cells

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