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proendocrine

proendocrine adjective: relating to the production of endocrine secretions.

Adjective

proendocrine (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the production of endocrine secretions.
    • E2A protein E47, which forms heterodimers with NGN3 to regulate proendocrine gene transcription [44 ] coprecipitated with human NGN3 and was detected along with E12, an alternately spliced form of E2A, in the mouse lysate (Fig 1I, bottom right panel).2015 August 20, “Neurogenin 3 Expressing Cells in the Human Exocrine Pancreas Have the Capacity for Endocrine Cell Fate”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of proendocrine

From pro- + endocrine.

Questions about proendocrine

What does proendocrine mean?
Proendocrine means relating to the production of endocrine secretions.
What part of speech is proendocrine?
Proendocrine is an adjective.

Words near proendocrine in the dictionary

  1. proemiums
  2. proemployee
  3. proemptosis
  4. proems
  5. proencephalic
  6. proendocrine
  7. proenforcement
  8. proenkephalin
  9. proenkephalins
  10. proenlargement
  11. proenvironmental

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