different between spondin vs thrombospondin

English

spondin (plural spondins)

From thrombin +? respond +? -in, coined in a 1972 paper by Baenziger et al., named due to its sensitivity to thrombin.[1]

thrombospondin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombospondins)

(biochemistry) Any of a family of glycoproteins secreted into the extracellular matrix by various types of cell, which play a role in cellular adhesion in processes including thrombocyte aggregation, tumor metastasis, and angiogenesis.

“thrombospondin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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