The connective tissue growth factor/cysteine-rich 61/nephroblastoma overexpressed (CCN) family

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-206

  Brigstock, David R ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; HEPARIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE; CELL MIGRATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE STRUCTURE; GROWTH REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; WOUND HEALING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0032787927     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.20.2.189     Document Type: Article

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