"Pokeweed Mitogens" 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.
Proteins isolated from the roots of the pokeweed, Phytolacca americana, that agglutinate some erythrocytes, stimulate mitosis and antibody synthesis in lymphocytes, and induce activation of plasma cells.
| Descriptor ID |
D011043
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.503.499.875 D12.776.765.678.875
|
| Concept/Terms |
Pokeweed Mitogens- Pokeweed Mitogens
- Mitogens, Pokeweed
- Lectins, Pokeweed
- Pokeweed Lectins
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Pokeweed Mitogens".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Pokeweed Mitogens".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pokeweed Mitogens" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pokeweed Mitogens" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Pokeweed Mitogens" by people in Profiles.
-
Desialylation of T lymphocytes overcomes the monocyte dependency of pokeweed mitogen-induced T-cell activation. Immunology. 1997 Jan; 90(1):57-65.
-
Early nutrition support modifies immune function in patients sustaining severe head injury. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 1995 Sep-Oct; 19(5):387-92.
-
Impaired post-transcriptional expression of interleukin-2 receptor in pokeweed mitogen-activated T cells. Eur J Immunol. 1992 Apr; 22(4):897-902.