Stem cells in the skin: Waste not, Wnt not

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1189-1200

  Alonso, Laura ^a   Fuchs, Elaine ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN D2; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; INTEGRIN; KERATIN; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MORPHOGEN; MYC PROTEIN; NOGGIN; PROTEIN P63; RAS PROTEIN; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; UVOMORULIN; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIDERMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HUMANS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MICE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0038274074     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1086903     Document Type: Review

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