Differentiation factor

Chromium. AppHcations of chromium plating can be separated into two areas hard chromium, also called functional, industrial, or engineering chromium, and decorative chromium. The plating bath compositions may be the same for both. In most cases, the differentiating factor is plate thickness. Decorative chromium is usually less than about 1 p.m hard chromium can be from about 1 p.m to 500 p.m or more. 

A cytokine, secreted by TH2-cells, stimulates B-cells in different stages of their development. It may act as a growth factor or as a differentiation factor, causing B-lymphocytes to switch antibody to IgE. In T-cells it causes differentiation into TH2-cells. 

YAMAGISHI T, OTSUKA E and HAGIWARA H (2001) Reciprocal control of expression of mRNAs for osteoclast differentiation factor and OPG in osteogenic stromal cells by genistein evidence for the involvement of topoisomerase 11 in osteoclastogenesis. Endocrinol 142, 3632-7. 

Different types of networks have been developed. The connection pattern is an important differentiating factor, since this determines the information flow through the network. 

Besmer, P. (1991). The kit ligand encoded at the murine Steel locus a pleiotropic growth and differentiation factor. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 3 939-946. 

The production of goods and services requires technical information, that is, the necessary knowledge for the production process. Information is an economic good in its own right with characteristics that differentiate it from other goods, and also a differential factor for businesses in an industrial sector. 

Proliferation/differentiation factor of haemopoietic progenitor cells, particularly those yielding neutrophils (a variety of granulocyte) and macrophages, but also eosinophils, erythrocytes and megakarycytes. In vivo studies also demonstrate this cytokine s ability to promote haemopoiesis. 

Nakagawa N, Kinosaki M, Yamaguchi K, Shima N, Yasuda H, Yano K, Morinaga T, Hi-gashio K (1998) RANK is the essential signaling receptor for osteoclast differentiation factor in osteoclastogenesis. BioChem Biophys Res Commun 253 395-400... 

Gao YH, Shinki T, YuasaT, Kataoka-Enomoto H, Komori T, Suda T, Yamaguchi A (1998) Potential role of cbfal, an essential transcriptional factor for osteoblast differentiation, in osteoclastogenesis regulation of mRNA expression of osteoclast differentiation factor (ODF). BioChem Biophys Res Commun 252 697-702... 

TABLE 15.6. Growth and Differentiation Factors of the Immune System... 

Eisenbarth SC, Zhadkevich A, Ranney P, Herrick CA, Bottomly K IL-4-dependent Th2 collateral priming to inhaled antigens independent of Tolllike receptor 4 and myeloid differentiation factor 88. J Immunol 2004 172 4527-4534. 

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