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Growth Differentiation Factor 2

"Growth Differentiation Factor 2" 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 growth differentiation factor that plays a regulatory role as a paracrine factor for a diverse array of cell types during EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT and in the adult tissues. Growth differentiation factor 2 is also a potent regulator of CHONDROGENESIS and was previously referred to as bone morphogenetic protein 9.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Growth Differentiation Factor 2" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Growth Differentiation Factor 2" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 23 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2020
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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.