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RAF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998
Synonyms:
RAF; Red Army Faction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The airforce of Great Britain
Synonyms:
RAF; Royal Air Force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("RAF" is a kind of...):
air force; airforce (the airborne branch of a country's armed forces)
Context examples:
CEP-32496 specifically and selectively inhibits the activity of the mutated form (V600E) of B-raf kinase.
(BRAF(V600E) Inhibitor CEP-32496, NCI Thesaurus)
An orally bioavailable, highly soluble phosphate prodrug of B-raf (BRAF) protein kinase with potential antineoplastic activity.
(BRAF Inhibitor ARQ 736, NCI Thesaurus)
A variation in the amino acid sequence for the serine/threonine-protein kinase B-raf protein.
(BRAF Protein Variant, NCI Thesaurus)
An orally bioavailable inhibitor of serine/threonine-protein kinase B-raf (BRAF) protein with potential antineoplastic activity.
(BRAF Inhibitor PLX8394, NCI Thesaurus)
A gene that makes a protein called B-RAF, which is involved in sending signals in cells and in cell growth.
(BRAF gene, NCI Dictionary)
A change in the valine at position 600 of the serine/threonine-protein kinase B-raf protein to another amino acid.
(BRAF V600 Protein Variation, NCI Thesaurus)
MEK1/2 are dual-specificity threonine/tyrosine kinases that play key roles in the activation of the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK pathway and are often upregulated in a variety of tumor cell types.
(MEK Inhibitor MEK162, NCI Thesaurus)
The dual specific threonine/tyrosine kinase MEK is a key component of the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK signaling pathway that is frequently activated in human tumors.
(PD0325901, NCI Thesaurus)
MEK is a key component of the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK signaling pathway that regulates cell growth; constitutive activation of this pathway has been implicated in many cancers.
(MEK Inhibitor AZD8330, NCI Thesaurus)
MEK, a dual-specificity threonine/tyrosine kinase that plays a key role in the activation of the RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK signaling pathway, is frequently upregulated in a variety of tumor cell types.
(MEK Inhibitor WX-554, NCI Thesaurus)
