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- noun biochemistry A
vitamin D -dependentcalcium -binding protein involved in calcium signalling andabundantly expressed inneurons ; itstains mesothelioma and can help to identifylung tumours .
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Differential effect of thyroid hormone deficiency on the growth of calretinin-expressing neurons in rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia.
T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details T.S. Wiley 2010
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Histologically, the tumor was composed of two distinct components - an epithelioid component with granular cytoplasm that stained for synaptophysin, melan-A, calretinin, and vimentin compatible with adrenocortical differentiation, and a pleomorphic to spindled component that was positive for desmin and myogenin, compatible with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Kotaro Sasaki 2010
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Only neurons producing calretinin and Sp8, two markers of olfactory bulb neurons, migrate into the wounded striatum.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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[12] Several other neurochemical markers including calretinin, parvalbumin, GAP-43, and NMDA receptors, and connections with numerous other brain structures in the brainstem and diencephalon, also show a corresponding inhomogeneity.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Brandt MD, Jessberger S, Steiner B, Kronenberg G, Reuter K, et al. (2003) Transient calretinin expression defines early postmitotic step of neuronal differentiation in adult hippocampal neurogenesis of mice.
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