Activin Receptors, Type II
"Activin Receptors, Type II" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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One of the two types of ACTIVIN RECEPTORS. They are membrane protein kinases belonging to the family of PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES. The major type II activin receptors are ActR-IIA and ActR-IIB.
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D030301
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.913.696.620.682.700.062.750 D12.776.543.750.750.400.820.500.750
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| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Activin Receptors, Type II" by people in Profiles.
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The effects of an ActRIIb receptor Fc fusion protein ligand trap in juvenile simian immunodeficiency virus-infected rhesus macaques. FASEB J. 2015 Apr; 29(4):1165-75.
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Elevated expression of cav-1 in a subset of SSc fibroblasts contributes to constitutive Alk1/Smad1 activation. J Cell Mol Med. 2012 Sep; 16(9):2238-46.
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Endoglin promotes TGF-?/Smad1 signaling in scleroderma fibroblasts. J Cell Physiol. 2011 Dec; 226(12):3340-8.