| neuregulin | <protein> Growth factor of the EGF family that induces growth and differentiation of epithelial, glial and muscle cells in culture. Receptor is a tyrosine kinase: will bind erbB3 which will heterodimerise with erbB2. Gene disruption is lethal during embryogenesis with heart malformation and defects in Schwann cells and neural ganglia. Nature, 378, 386 (18 Nov 1997) |
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