MeSH definition : Phospholipoglycoproteins produced in the fat body of egg-laying animals such as non-mammalian
VERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; and others. Vitellogenins are secreted into the HEMOLYMPH,
and taken into the OOCYTES by receptor-mediated ENDOCYTOSIS to form the major yolk
proteins, VITELLINS. Vitellogenin production is under the regulation of steroid hormones,
such as ESTRADIOL and JUVENILE HORMONES in insects.;
Phospholipoglycoproteins produced in the fat body of egg-laying animals such as non-mammalian
VERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; and others. Vitellogenins are secreted into the HEMOLYMPH,
and taken into the OOCYTES by receptor-mediated ENDOCYTOSIS to form the major yolk
proteins, VITELLINS. Vitellogenin production is under the regulation of steroid hormones,
such as ESTRADIOL and JUVENILE HORMONES in insects.
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