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Biological Factors > Blood Coagulation Factors > Kallikreins > Prostate-Specific Antigen
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Blood Coagulation Factors > Kallikreins > Prostate-Specific Antigen
... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Hydrolases > Peptide Hydrolases > Endopeptidases > Serine Endopeptidases > Kallikreins > Prostate-Specific Antigen
... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Hydrolases > Peptide Hydrolases > Serine Proteases > Serine Endopeptidases > Kallikreins > Prostate-Specific Antigen
Biological Factors > Antigens > Antigens, Neoplasm > Prostate-Specific Antigen
Biological Factors > Biomarkers > Biomarkers, Tumor > Prostate-Specific Antigen
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Seminal Plasma Proteins > Prostatic Secretory Proteins > Prostate-Specific Antigen

Preferred term

Prostate-Specific Antigen  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • gamma Seminoprotein
  • gamma-Seminoprotein
  • hK3 Kallikrein
  • Kallikrein hK3
  • Kallikrein, hK3
  • Prostate Specific Antigen
  • Semenogelase
  • Seminin

Scope note

  • A glycoprotein that is a kallikrein-like serine proteinase and an esterase, produced by epithelial cells of both normal and malignant prostate tissue. It is an important marker for the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

History note

  • 93; was PROSTATE CANCER SPECIFIC ANTIGENS (NM) 1982-92; SEMENOGELASE was NM 1976-95

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017430

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