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Transforming Growth Factor beta3

"Transforming Growth Factor beta3" 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 TGF-beta subtype that plays role in regulating epithelial-mesenchymal interaction during embryonic development. It is synthesized as a precursor molecule that is cleaved to form mature TGF-beta3 and TGF-beta3 latency-associated peptide. The association of the cleavage products results in the formation a latent protein which must be activated to bind its receptor.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Transforming Growth Factor beta3" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Transforming Growth Factor beta3" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2013 and 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.