CCN2, the connective tissue growth factor

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Luft, Friedrich C ^a  

^a Hermann Von Helmholtz Haus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSIN II; CALCINEURIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 61; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE ACETATE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EVEROLIMUS; FIBRONECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SCLEROPROTEIN; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EDITORIAL; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; INFLAMMATION; KELOID; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SCLERODERMA; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE REPAIR; UPREGULATION;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 38349061659     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00109-007-0287-x     Document Type: Editorial

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