The advantages and disadvantages of Sfrp1 and Sfrp2 expression in pathological events

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-17

  Esteve, Pilar ^a   Bovolenta, Paola ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone repair; Cancer; Myocardium; Secreted frizzled related protein; Wnt signalling

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENT; DIPHENYLSULFONE SULFONAMIDE; FIBRONECTIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; MINOOXOTHIAZOLIDINE; NETRIN 1; OSTEOCLAST DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 1; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 2; SULFONAMIDE; THIAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TOLLOID METALLOPROTEINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOCYTE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE REPAIR;

BONE DISEASES; FIBRONECTINS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA5BETA1; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MYOCARDIUM; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN BINDING; RANK LIGAND; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOLLOID-LIKE METALLOPROTEINASES; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77951752157     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.221.11     Document Type: Article

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