Basement membranes in development and disease

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 8-31

  Wiradjaja, Fenny ^a   DiTommaso, Tia ^a   Smyth, Ian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basement membrane; Development; Disease; Extracellular matrix

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ENTACTIN; LAMININ; PERLECAN; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE;

ALPORT SYNDROME; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA SIMPLEX; EYE MALFORMATION; FRASER SYNDROME; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GLOMERULOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIPOID PROTEINOSIS; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NAIL PATELLA SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PIERSON SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SCHWARTZ JAMPEL SYNDROME; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HEPARAN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCANS; HUMANS;

EID: 77949739002     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20172     Document Type: Review

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