Cultured endothelial cells display endogenous activation of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway and express multiple ligands, receptors, and secreted modulators of Wnt signaling

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 235, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3110-3120

  Goodwin, Anne M ^a   Sullivan, Kaitlyn M ^a   D'Amore, Patricia A ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Angiogenesis; Cell density; Endothelial cells; Wnt

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; LIGAND; LUCIFERASE; RECEPTOR; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; AORTA; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DKK GENE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FZD GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SFRP GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WNT GENE;

BETA CATENIN; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSOL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, LDL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS; WNT PROTEINS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33750973380     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.20939     Document Type: Article

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