Growth factors included in terminologia embryologica: Critical analysis Factores de crecimiento incluidos en terminologia embryologica: Análisis crítico

Abstract

© 2018, Universidad de la Frontera. All rights reserved. Each term included in Terminologia Embryologica (TE), published in 2013 and with a second edition in 2017 subject to approval by the Federative International Programme For Anatomical Terminology (FIPAT), must be structured based on its principles: Names must have an informative value, eponyms, homonyms and concordant names are deleted. However, this does not happen in some terms. That is why the terms included in the section "Growth Factors" (Factores crescentiae, E.4.0.1.0.0.0.1) were analyzed in the way they are presented, their concordance with what was published in reviews of PubMed database, and their naming form was described based on what was used by the Genes Nomenclature Committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HGNC). It was evidenced that in the terms Family Hedgehog (Familia erinacea, E.4.0.1.0.0.0.6) and Superfamily of the Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) (Superfamilia factoris epidermalis [EGF] crescentiae, E.4.0.1.0