epidermal
IPA: ɛpʌdˈɝmʌɫ
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the epidermis.
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Examples of "epidermal" in Sentences
- Vectibix inhibits cancer cell growth and survival by targeting a protein known as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR).
- Both Erbitux and Vectibix target what scientists call epidermal growth-factor receptors, or EGFRs, which sit on the surface of cells.
- These cells are sensitive to a particular growth factor, called epidermal growth factor or EGF, which has previously been shown to stimulate tumour growth and invasion '.
- Tarceva is designed to prevent tumor growth by blocking a signal pathway that controls cell division by binding to a cancer cell membrane receptor called epidermal growth factor (EGFR).
- Lung cancer patients who have never smoked are more likely to have a mutation in a gene called epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR and are also more likely to have what is called a KRAS mutation.
- They found that never-smokers had more mutations in the genes that encode molecules called epidermal growth factor receptors EGFRs, which receive signals on cell membranes, than current or former smokers.
- It was already known that a genetic defect in the coding for epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR, a cell-surface receptor for a hormone known as epidermal growth factor, plays a role in about one-third of glioblastoma cases.
- Erlotinib is one of a class of drugs that specifically inhibits an important cell-surface molecule known as the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which is highly expressed in some forms of cancer, including lung cancer.
- As serendipity would have it, scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization discovered 10 years ago that a natural animal protein, called epidermal growth factor (EGF), makes fleece fall off sheep like butter off a hot knife.
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