Tenascins are extracellular matrix glycoproteins. They are abundant in the extracellular matrix of developing vertebrate embryos and they reappear around healing wounds and in the stroma of some tumors. ==Types== There are four members of the tenascin gene family: tenascin-C, tenascin-R, tenascin-X and tenascin-W. The basic structure is 14 EGF-lik...
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an adhesive molecule of connective tissue related to fibronectin andlaminin .
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<cell biology> Protein of the extracellular matrix (240 kD subunit: usually as a hexabrachion, a six armed hexamer of more than 1000 kD) selectively present in mesenchyme surrounding foetal (but not adult) rat mammary glands, hair follicles and teeth. ... Found in the matrix surrounding mammary tumours of rat. Tenascin contaminates cell surfa...
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(= myotendinous antigen; cytotactin) Protein of the extracellular matrix (240 kD subunit: usually as a hexabrachion, a six-armed hexamer of more than 1000 kD) selectively present in mesenchyme surrounding foetal (but not adult) rat mammary glands, hair follicles and teeth. Found in the matrix surrounding mammary tumours of rat. Tenascin contaminates cell-surface fibronectin and accounts for most of the haemagglutinating activity of extracellular matrix protein. Contains 14 repeats of the EGF-like domain.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ten-as′sin Definitions: 1. A protein that is present in the mesenchyme that surrounds epithelia in organs undergoing development in embryos; believed to participate in inducing differentiation of epithelia.
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