Etymology

tuftsin

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Today it means: A tetrapeptide produced by enzymatic cleavage of the Fc-domain of the heavy chain of immunoglobulin G. Full definition →

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From Tufts + -in, after Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, where it was discovered.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.