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Definition of "nestin" [nestin]

  • A type VI intermediate filament (IF) protein, expressed mostly in nerve cells where it is implicated in the radial growth of the axon. (noun)

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Use "nestin" in a sentence
  • "David Berman, an assistant professor of pathology, urology and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues identified the unsuspected potential problem with treatments that suppress testosterone after discovering that the gene that codes for the protein, called nestin, was active in lab-grown human prostate cancer cells."
  • "The cells also carried the protein nestin, which is a marker for nerve stem cells and is also present in neuroblastoma cells."
  • "The new virus demonstrated significantly higher antitumor activity in cells with high levels of nestin compared with older viruses, but there was no difference in low-nestin cells."
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