mucosotrophic

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English

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Etymology

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mucoso- +‎ -trophic

Adjective

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mucosotrophic (comparative more mucosotrophic, superlative most mucosotrophic)

  1. Obtaining nourishment from a mucous membrane
  2. Misspelling of mucosotropic.
    • 2015 April 17, Lifang Zhang et al., “The role of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway in human cancers induced by infection with human papillomaviruses”, in Molecular Cancer[1], volume 14, →DOI:
      The E6 oncoproteins from high-risk mucosotrophic HPVs (α-HPVs) target not only P53, but also a range of host-cell proteins for proteasome-mediated degradation, resulting in alteration of multiple cellular and molecular events [ 99 - 101 ].