| Protein Name | transforming growth factor alpha |
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| Organism | Rattus norvegicus |
| Gene ID | 24827 |
| Gene Symbol | Tgfa |
| UniProt | P01134 (TGFA_RAT), U5LKN7 (U5LKN7_RAT) |
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Total Number of functionally related compound(s) :
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Total Number of Articles : 532 |
Description |
transforming growth factor alpha |
| Gene Summary |
Enables epidermal growth factor receptor binding activity. Involved in several processes, including hepatocyte proliferation; negative regulation of apoptotic process; and positive regulation of cell population proliferation. Located in extracellular space. Used to study pancreatic cancer. Biomarker of acute kidney failure and hepatocellular carcinoma. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in gastroenteritis. Orthologous to human TGFA (transforming growth factor alpha). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, May 2025] |
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