Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glycoprotein hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells by stem cells in bone marrow. Produced mainly by the kidneys, it is released in response to decreased levels of oxygen in body tissue.
- noun Epoetin alfa.
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- noun biochemistry A
glycoprotein hormone that functions as acytokine forerythrocyte precursors inbone marrow
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- noun a glycoprotein secreted by the kidneys that stimulates the production of red blood cells
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Epogen is an artificial form of a hormone called erythropoietin that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
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For example, if a person loses blood, a growth factor called erythropoietin which is produced in the kidneys circulates in the bloodstream and tells the bone marrow to manufacture more blood cells.
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For example, if a person loses blood, a growth factor called erythropoietin which is produced in the kidneys circulates in the bloodstream and tells the bone marrow to manufacture more blood cells.
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For example, if a person loses blood, a growth factor called erythropoietin which is produced in the kidneys circulates in the bloodstream and tells the bone marrow to manufacture more blood cells.
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The kidneys release a hormone called erythropoietin, commonly known as EPO, which stimulates the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells.
Re-Entering New York's Atmosphere Joshua Robinson 2011
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The meeting, a follow-up to a May 2007 meeting with the agency's Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee, will examine findings related to the drugs known as erythropoietin stimulating agents, or ESAs, which are used to boost red-blood-cell production in cancer patients whose chemotherapy causes anemia.
Anemia Drugs 2008
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Aranesp, part of a family of drugs known as erythropoietin-stimulating agents, boosts red-blood-cell production in patients with anemia due to chemotherapy and kidney disease.
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It does this via a substance called erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone made by the kidneys when the body needs to make more red blood corpuscles.
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More broadly, human genes are used by pharmaceutical firms in the production of insulin for diabetics, human growth hormone, and erythropoietin, which is used to treat anaemia.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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More broadly, human genes are used by pharmaceutical firms in the production of insulin for diabetics, human growth hormone, and erythropoietin, which is used to treat anaemia.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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