chalone

chalone
Originally, a hormone ( e.g., enterogastrone) that inhibits rather than stimulates; now, any one of a number of mitotic inhibitors (often glycoproteins) elaborated by a tissue and active only on that type of tissue, regardless of species; thus, a reversible tissue-specific mitotic inhibitor. [G. + chalao, to relax, + -one]

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cha·lone 'kā-.lōn, 'kal-.ōn n a substance (as a glycoprotein) that inhibits mitosis in the specific tissue which secretes it

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chal·one (kalґōn) [Gr. chalan to relax] a group of tissue-specific (but not species-specific) water-soluble proteins that are produced within a tissue and that inhibit mitosis of cells of that tissue and whose action is reversible. chalonic adj

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