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MORPHOGENESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Differentiation and growth of the structure of an organism (or a part of an organism)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("morphogenesis" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Domain category:
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes artemin protein, is involved in both the morphogenesis of Peyer patches and neuroblast proliferation.
(ARTN wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in both neurogenesis and Peyer patch morphogenesis.
(ARTN Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in transcriptional regulation, organ morphogenesis and apoptosis.
(Paired Box Protein Pax-3, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes Muellerian-inhibiting factor protein, is involved in the morphogenesis of the reproductive system.
(AMH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek3 protein, is involved in neuronal morphogenesis and polarity.
(NEK3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Studies in mice suggest that the protein encoded by this protein plays a role in skeletal morphogenesis.
(Bone Morphogenetic Protein 3B, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)
Family of cell surface glycoproteins, first identified in vertebrates, that mediate calcium dependent, homophilic cell adhesion and thereby control tissue morphogenesis.
(Cadherin, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
Tissue-specific cadherin glycoproteins are responsible for homophilic calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion likely involved in cell type sorting during morphogenesis, histogenesis, and regeneration.
(Cadherin Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in neuronal morphogenesis.
(NEK3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Melanoma adhesion molecule (646 aa, 72 kD) is a cell adhesion process protein that is encoded by the human MCAM gene and has roles in anatomical structure morphogenesis and cell adhesion.
(Melanoma Adhesion Molecule, NCI Thesaurus)
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