β-catenin signaling: A novel mediator of fibrosis and potential therapeutic target

Current Opinion in Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 562-567

  Lam, Anna P ^a   Gottardi, Cara J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Fibrosis; Wnt; Wound repair

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBROTIC AGENT; BETA CATENIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; ICG 001; PARICALCITOL; PYRVINIUM EMBONATE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; XAV 939;

CELL TYPE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG TARGETING; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; FIBROSIS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 82955232388     PISSN: 10408711     EISSN: 15316963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOR.0b013e32834b3309     Document Type: Review

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