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countable and uncountable, plural thrombopoietins
A protein produced by the liver and kidney, which regulates the production of platelets quotations examples
The megakaryocyte growth and differentiation factor, C-mpl, is the receptor for thrombopoietin and is encoded by the Mpl gene.
2009 February 6, Brendan J. McMorran et al., “Platelets Kill Intraerythrocytic Malarial Parasites and Mediate Survival to Infection”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, pages 797–800