NRAGE: A potential rheostat during branching morphogenesis

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 126, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 337-349

  Nikopoulos, George N ^a,b   Martins, Joao Ferreira ^a,c   Adams, Tamara L ^a   Karaczyn, Aldona ^a,b   Adams, Derek ^a   Vary, Calvin ^a,b   Oxburgh, Leif ^a,b   Verdi, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; BMP; Branching morphogenesis; GDNF; NRAGE; p38 MAP kinase; Ret

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROTEIN NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR MAGE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; KIDNEY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URETER;

EID: 67349160194     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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