sclerostin

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noun

A glycoprotein that has an antianabolic effect on bone formation.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounsclerostin (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiochemistryA glycoprotein that has an antianabolic effect on bone formation.

    AMG785 and AMG167 are humanized monoclonal antibodies against sclerostin that have not yet completed all phases of clinical trials.

    2015 July 8, Ozra Tabatabaei-Malazy, Bagher Larijani, Mohammad Abdollahi, “Targeting metabolic disorders by natural products”, in Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders, volume 14, →DOI
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