dickkopf

发音

UK /ˈdɪkˌkɒpf/
其它
US /ˈdɪkˌkɑ(p)f/
US /-ˌkɔ(p)f/

词形变化

dickkopfs 复数 dickkopfs

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of a family of glycoproteins that are involved in the development of the embryo.

    化学 生物

词源

Borrowed from German Dickkopf (“stubborn person”, literally “thick head”), from the fact that Dickkopf-related protein 1 (DKK1), one of the dickkopf proteins, was found to be required for head formation in embryos. The word was coined by Andrei Glinka, Wei Wu, Hajo Delius, A. Paula Monaghan, Claudia Blumenstock, and Christof Niehrs in a 1998 article published in Nature: see the quotation.

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