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Osteopontin

"Osteopontin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A negatively-charged extracellular matrix protein that plays a role in the regulation of BONE metabolism and a variety of other biological functions. Cell signaling by osteopontin may occur through a cell adhesion sequence that recognizes INTEGRIN ALPHA-V BETA-3.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Osteopontin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Osteopontin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 37 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1995
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