Cathepsin K
"Cathepsin K" 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.
A cysteine protease that is highly expressed in OSTEOCLASTS and plays an essential role in BONE RESORPTION as a potent EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX-degrading enzyme.
| Descriptor ID |
D056657
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.224.405 D08.811.277.656.262.500.156 D08.811.277.656.300.200.156
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Cathepsin K".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Cathepsin K".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cathepsin K" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cathepsin K" 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 |
|---|
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Cathepsin K" by people in Profiles.
-
Pin F, Prideaux M, Huot JR, Essex AL, Plotkin LI, Bonetto A, Bonewald LF. Non-bone metastatic cancers promote osteocyte-induced bone destruction. Cancer Lett. 2021 11 01; 520:80-90.
-
Pham L, Purcell P, Morse L, Stashenko P, Battaglino RA. Expression analysis of nha-oc/NHA2: a novel gene selectively expressed in osteoclasts. Gene Expr Patterns. 2007 Oct; 7(8):846-51.