"Plant Lectins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Protein or glycoprotein substances of plant origin that bind to sugar moieties in cell walls or membranes. Some carbohydrate-metabolizing proteins (ENZYMES) from PLANTS also bind to carbohydrates, however they are not considered lectins. Many plant lectins change the physiology of the membrane of BLOOD CELLS to cause agglutination, mitosis, or other biochemical changes. They may play a role in plant defense mechanisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D037121
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.503.499 D12.776.765.678
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| Concept/Terms |
Agglutinins, Plant- Agglutinins, Plant
- Phytagglutinins
- Plant Agglutinins
- Hemagglutinins, Plant
- Plant Hemagglutinins
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plant Lectins" by people in Profiles.
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Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Current Best Practice and Future Direction. Gastroenterology. 2019 07; 157(1):54-64.
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Targeted Apoptosis of Parietal Cells Is Insufficient to Induce Metaplasia in Stomach. Gastroenterology. 2017 03; 152(4):762-766.e7.
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Structured synaptic connectivity between hippocampal regions. Neuron. 2014 Feb 05; 81(3):629-40.
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Sustained inhibition of neurotransmitter release from nontransient receptor potential vanilloid type 1-expressing primary afferents by mu-opioid receptor activation-enkephalin in the spinal cord. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2008 Nov; 327(2):375-82.
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A-type voltage-gated K+ currents influence firing properties of isolectin B4-positive but not isolectin B4-negative primary sensory neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2005 Jun; 93(6):3401-9.
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Tetrodotoxin-sensitive and -resistant Na+ channel currents in subsets of small sensory neurons of rats. Brain Res. 2004 Dec 17; 1029(2):251-8.
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High voltage-activated Ca(2+) channel currents in isolectin B(4)-positive and -negative small dorsal root ganglion neurons of rats. Neurosci Lett. 2004 Sep 16; 368(1):96-101.
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Differential sensitivity of N- and P/Q-type Ca2+ channel currents to a mu opioid in isolectin B4-positive and -negative dorsal root ganglion neurons. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 2004 Dec; 311(3):939-47.
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Region-specific ontogeny of alpha-2,6-sialyltransferase during normal and cortisone-induced maturation in mouse intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2002 Mar; 282(3):G480-90.
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Ulex europaeus agglutinin II (UEA-II) is a novel, potent inhibitor of complement activation. Protein Sci. 2001 Feb; 10(2):277-84.