What Is a Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein?
Glial fibrillary acidic protein is a type III intermediate fibrillar protein that is a specific marker during the development of the central nervous system, which can distinguish stellate cells and glial cells. Such proteins in humans consist of 432 amino acids.
Glial fibrillary acidic protein
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- Chinese name
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein
- English name
- glial fibrillary acidic protein; GFAP
- definition
- Central nervous system astrocyte-specific type III intermediate fibrillin. It is a hallmark of astrocyte differentiation and its expression is regulated during development, wound healing and disease.
- Applied discipline
- Cell biology (first-level discipline), cytochemistry (second-level discipline)
- Chinese name
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein
- Foreign name
- glial fibrillary acidic protein
- First-level discipline
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- secondary discipline
- Amino acids, peptides and proteins
- Chinese name
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein
- Applied discipline
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Level I), Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins (Level II)
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein is a type III intermediate fibrillar protein that is a specific marker during the development of the central nervous system, which can distinguish stellate cells and glial cells. Such proteins in humans consist of 432 amino acids.
- The above content was published by the National Science and Technology Terminology Examination Committee.