CTGF/Hcs24 as a multifunctional growth factor for fibroblasts, chondrocytes and vascular endothelial cells

Drug News and Perspectives

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-21

  Takigawa, Masaharu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; GENE PRODUCT; GROWTH FACTOR; HYPERTROPHIC CHONDROCYTE SPECIFIC GENE PRODUCT 24; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT; REVIEW; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHONDROCYTES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 0038035643     PISSN: 02140934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/dnp.2003.16.1.829302     Document Type: Review

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