Peptide hormones as developmental growth and differentiation factors

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 237, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1537-1552

  Sanders, Esmond J ^a   Harvey, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autocrine; Development; Embryo; Growth factors; Hormones; Paracrine

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; LIOTHYRONINE; PARATHYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROLACTIN; SOMATOMEDIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR ALPHA; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; THYROXINE;

ANGIOGENESIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BLASTOCYST; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHONDROGENESIS; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; METAMORPHOSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PARATHYROID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEURONS; PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PROLACTIN; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 44949200181     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21573     Document Type: Review

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