Wnt signaling enhances the activation and survival of human hepatic stellate cells

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 2954-2958

  Myung, Sun Jung ^a   Yoon, Jung Hwan ^a   Gwak, Geum Youn ^a   Kim, Won ^a   Lee, Jeong Hoon ^a   Kim, Kang Mo ^a   Shin, Chan Soo ^a   Jang, Ja June ^a   Lee, Sung Hee ^a   Lee, Soo Mi ^a   Lee, Hyo Suk ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Fibrosis; Hepatic stellate cell; Secreted frizzled related protein 1; Wnt

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; WNT PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STELLATE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TNF-RELATED APOPTOSIS-INDUCING LIGAND; TRANSFECTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 34250207000     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.05.050     Document Type: Article

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