mucosotrophic

English

Etymology

From mucoso- +‎ -trophic.

Adjective

mucosotrophic (comparative more mucosotrophic, superlative most mucosotrophic)

1. Obtaining nourishment from a mucous membrane
2. Misspelling of mucosotropic.
   • 2015 April 17, Lifang Zhang et al., “The role of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway in human cancers induced by infection with human papillomaviruses”, in Molecular Cancer‎^[1], volume 14, →DOI:

     The E6 oncoproteins from high-risk mucosotrophic HPVs (α-HPVs) target not only P53, but also a range of host-cell proteins for proteasome-mediated degradation, resulting in alteration of multiple cellular and molecular events [ 99 - 101 ].