AFP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does AFP mean? 

• AFP (noun)
  The noun AFP has 1 sense:

1. an abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly)

  Familiarity information: AFP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abnormally large amount of this fetoprotein in the fetus can signal an abnormality of the neural tube (as spina bifida or anencephaly)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

AFP; alpha fetoprotein; alpha foetoprotein

Hypernyms ("AFP" is a kind of...):

fetoprotein; foetoprotein (any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer)

 Context examples 

AFP is overexpressed in a variety of cancer cells.

(Alpha-fetoprotein Peptide-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Eosinophilic hyaline globules immunoreactive for AFP are a diagnostic feature.

(Central Nervous System Yolk Sac Tumor, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

HuAFP31 attaches to tumor cells that make alpha fetoprotein (AFP).

(HuAFP31, NCI Dictionary)

HuAFP31 binds to tumor cells that make alpha fetoprotein (AFP), and the indium In 111 may kill the tumor cells.

(Indium In 111 DOTA Monoclonal Antibody HuAFP31, NCI Dictionary)

“This gave us a virtual telescope as big as Earth — about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) in diameter,” he told AFP.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

AFP levels are usually undetectable in the blood of healthy adult men or women (who are not pregnant).

(AFP, NCI Dictionary)

A cancer vaccine composed of naked plasmid DNA of the gene for the tumor-associated antigen alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), a macromolecule that acts as a specific immunologic target for hepatocellular carcinoma.

(AFP Gene Hepatocellular Carcinoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Human AFP wild-type allele is located within 4q11-q13 and is approximately 20 kb in length.

(AFP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Information from provider and not independently verified by NIH: Cells are positive for cell markers Oct-4, alkaline phosphatase activity and telomerase activity; Differentiate in vitro into mature neuron, glia cells, muscle cells and beating cardiomyocytes; AFP was also detected in this cells.

(MB01, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called AFP.

(Alpha-fetoprotein, NCI Dictionary)