The roles of activins in repair processes of the skin and the brain

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 169-177

  Munz, Barbara ^a,b   Tretter, Yvonne P ^d   Hertel, Moritz ^a,c,d   Engelhardt, Felix ^a,c   Alzheimer, Christian ^d   Werner, Sabine ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activins; Basic FGF; Hippocampus; Skin; Wound

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MYELOPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SKIN INJURY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WOUND HEALING;

ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; SKIN; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0035974432     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(01)00514-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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