Non-conventional Frizzled ligands and Wnt receptors

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 229-243

  Hendrickx, Marijke ^a   Leyns, Luc ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Drl; Norrin; R Spondin; Ryk; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; NORRIE DISEASE PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; R SPONDIN PROTEIN; RYK PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; LIGAND; NERVE PROTEIN;

HUMAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ENTERITIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM;

ANIMALS; EYE PROTEINS; FRIZZLED RECEPTORS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LIGANDS; NEOPLASMS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 41649116120     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01016.x     Document Type: Review

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