Generating a Wnt switch: It's all about the right dosage

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 431-433

  Kestler, Hans A ^a   Kühl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CALCIUM ION; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CELL TYPE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL MOVEMENT; DIMERIZATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 79956214637     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201103167     Document Type: Note

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