PLASMINOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plasminogen mean? 

• PLASMINOGEN (noun)
  The noun PLASMINOGEN has 1 sense:

1. an inactive form of plasmin that occurs in plasma and is converted to plasmin by organic solvents

  Familiarity information: PLASMINOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLASMINOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inactive form of plasmin that occurs in plasma and is converted to plasmin by organic solvents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("plasminogen" is a kind of...):

fibrinolysin; plasmin (an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots)

 Context examples 

Plasminogen activator inhibitor 2 (415 aa, ~47 kDa) is encoded by the human SERPINB2 gene.

(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 antigen present in a sample.

(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Antigen Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (402 aa, ~45 kDa) is encoded by the human SERPINE1 gene.

(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A member of the serpin family of serine protease inhibitor proteins that inhibits plasminogen activator type proteases.

(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also involved in the inhibition of breast tumor cell metastasis through the degradation of plasminogen and laminin.

(MMP3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 antigen in a biological specimen.

(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Antigen Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 present in a sample.

(Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the activation of cell-surface plasminogen and localized degradation of the underlying extracellular matrix.

(PLAUR Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes urokinase plasminogen activator surface receptor protein, plays a role in the regulation of both cell-surface plasminogen activation and localized degradation of the extracellular matrix.

(PLAUR wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes urokinase-type plasminogen activator protein, plays a role in the degradation of the extracellular matrix via activation of plasminogen.

(PLAU wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)