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- noun Plural form of
thrombospondin .
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Monk R, Taylor AL, Ozbek S, Fascetti N, et al. (2003) Characterisation of Drosophila thrombospondin defines an early origin of pentameric thrombospondins.
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Group A, consisting of thrombospondins TSP-1 and TSP-2 in humans, also exists in invertebrates, and appeared prior to the development of the clotting and fibrinolytic systems of proteins, indicating their essentiality
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Bornstein P, Agah A, Kyriakides TR (2004) The role of thrombospondins 1 and 2 in the regulation of cell-matrix interactions, collagen fibril formation, and the response to injury.
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Mammalian thrombospondins are a group of matricellular proteins of complex spatial structure, which mediate a wide range of intercellular activities, and participate in cell-matrix interactions.
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