1. Mucin like glycoprotein found on surface of human tumour cells (also called CA antigen) but not nontumourigenic cell lines. It is present on the surface of some specialised cells (sweat glands, type II pneumocytes from lung, bladder epithelium) and may therefore be a normal differentiation antigen Also present in normal urine.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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