Prostate-Specific Antigen
"Prostate-Specific Antigen" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D017430
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D08.811.277.656.300.760.442.750 D08.811.277.656.959.350.442.750 D12.776.866.249.500 D23.050.285.625 D23.101.840.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Prostate-Specific Antigen- Prostate-Specific Antigen
- gamma-Seminoprotein
- gamma Seminoprotein
- Prostate Specific Antigen
- hK3 Kallikrein
- Kallikrein, hK3
- Semenogelase
- Kallikrein hK3
- Seminin
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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