Scavenger Receptors, Class A
"Scavenger Receptors, Class A" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A family of scavenger receptors that mediate the influx of LIPIDS into MACROPHAGES and are involved in FOAM CELL formation.
| Descriptor ID |
D051117
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.750.705.940.500 D12.776.543.750.710.450.750.500
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Scavenger Receptors, Class A".
- Chemicals and Drugs [D]
- Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
- Proteins [D12.776]
- Membrane Proteins [D12.776.543]
- Receptors, Cell Surface [D12.776.543.750]
- Receptors, Immunologic [D12.776.543.750.705]
- Receptors, Scavenger [D12.776.543.750.705.940]
- Scavenger Receptors, Class A [D12.776.543.750.705.940.500]
- Receptors, Lipoprotein [D12.776.543.750.710]
- Receptors, LDL [D12.776.543.750.710.450]
- Receptors, Scavenger [D12.776.543.750.710.450.750]
- Scavenger Receptors, Class A [D12.776.543.750.710.450.750.500]
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Scavenger Receptors, Class A" by people in Profiles.
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Rennert H, Zeigler-Johnson C, Mittal RD, Tan YC, Sadowl CM, Edwards J, Finley MJ, Mandhani A, Mital B, Rebbeck TR. Analysis of the RNASEL/HPC1, and macrophage scavenger receptor 1 in Asian-Indian advanced prostate cancer. Urology. 2008 Aug; 72(2):456-60.
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Biswas C, Sriram U, Ciric B, Ostrovsky O, Gallucci S, Argon Y. The N-terminal fragment of GRP94 is sufficient for peptide presentation via professional antigen-presenting cells. Int Immunol. 2006 Jul; 18(7):1147-57.
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Rennert H, Zeigler-Johnson CM, Addya K, Finley MJ, Walker AH, Spangler E, Leonard DG, Wein A, Malkowicz SB, Rebbeck TR. Association of susceptibility alleles in ELAC2/HPC2, RNASEL/HPC1, and MSR1 with prostate cancer severity in European American and African American men. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005 Apr; 14(4):949-57.
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Harshyne LA, Zimmer MI, Watkins SC, Barratt-Boyes SM. A role for class A scavenger receptor in dendritic cell nibbling from live cells. J Immunol. 2003 Mar 01; 170(5):2302-9.
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Obot CJ, Morandi MT, Beebe TP, Hamilton RF, Holian A. Surface components of airborne particulate matter induce macrophage apoptosis through scavenger receptors. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2002 Oct 15; 184(2):98-106.