CCN family proteins and angiogenesis: From embryo to adulthood

Angiogenesis

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Kubota, Satoshi ^a   Takigawa, Masaharu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cardiovascular development; CCN family; Connective tissue growth factor; CTGF; Cyr61; Metastasis; NOV

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; CCN PROTEIN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 61; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE COP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33847627603     PISSN: 09696970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10456-006-9058-5     Document Type: Review

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