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Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

"Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A family of closely related RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES that bind vascular endothelial growth factors. They share a cluster of seven extracellular Ig-like domains which are important for ligand binding. They are highly expressed in vascular endothelial cells and are critical for the physiological and pathological growth, development and maintenance of blood and lymphatic vessels.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 380 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 24 publications in 2014
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.