Osteopontin Gene

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Oseteopontin is a extracellular linking protein which is also known by the names of  bone sialoprotein I , early T-lymphocyte activation 1, secreted phosphoprotein 1, 2ar and Rickettsia resistance.

It  is a  glycoprotein that was first identified in 1986 in osteoblasts.

Apart from, the protein is also expressed in other tissues bone. [Read more...]

Peyer’s Patches

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Peyer’s patches aggregations of lymphoid tissue usually found in the lowest portion of the small intestine, the ileum.

Peyer’s patches are observable as elongated thickenings of the intestinal epithelium.

They have been named after the seventeenth century Swiss anatomist, Hans Conrad Peyer. [Read more...]