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What is a growth factor?

What is a growth factor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A naturally-occurring substance capable of stimulating cellular growth, proliferation, and cellular differentiation.
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The conditionally essential amino acid arginine has also been added to this formula to help support growth factor production.
This growth factor is abundantly expressed in many different lung cells, including alveolar macrophages and type II cells.
The positive response is paralleled by a rise in the insulin-like growth factor.
In addition, muscarinic receptor stimulation augmented the mitogenic responses of human airway smooth muscle cells to epidermal growth factor.
The models explain the trigonal pyramidal shape of fibroblast growth factor and provide a basis for interpretation of protein crystal structures.
A specific growth factor for liver cells is thought to stimulate their vigorous proliferation.

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