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MORPHOGENESIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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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)

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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)