Nodal Protein
"Nodal Protein" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The founding member of the nodal signaling ligand family of proteins. Nodal protein was originally discovered in the region of the mouse embryo primitive streak referred to as HENSEN'S NODE. It is expressed asymmetrically on the left side in chordates and plays a critical role in the genesis of left-right asymmetry during vertebrate development.
| Descriptor ID |
D055457
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.276.954.550.650 D12.776.467.942.550.650 D23.529.942.550.650
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Nodal Protein" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Matsumoto T, Chino H, Akiya M, Hashimura M, Yokoi A, Tochimoto M, Nakagawa M, Jiang Z, Saegusa M. Requirements of LEFTY and Nodal overexpression for tumor cell survival under hypoxia in glioblastoma. Mol Carcinog. 2020 12; 59(12):1409-1419.