thrombopoietin

English

Noun

thrombopoietin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombopoietins)

  1. A protein produced by the liver and kidney, which regulates the production of platelets.
    • 2009 February 6, Brendan J. McMorran et al., “Platelets Kill Intraerythrocytic Malarial Parasites and Mediate Survival to Infection”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5915, DOI:10.1126/science.1166296, pages 797-800:
      The megakaryocyte growth and differentiation factor, C-mpl, is the receptor for thrombopoietin and is encoded by the Mpl gene.
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