WNT signalling and haematopoiesis: A WNT-WNT situation

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-30

  Staal, Frank J T ^a   Clevers, Hans C ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEUKEMIA; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMUS GLAND; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 11244305618     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1529     Document Type: Review

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