The Wnt signaling pathway in development and disease

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 20, Issue , 2004, Pages 781-810

  Logan, Catriona Y ^a   Nusse, Roel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Cancer; Embryogenesis; Frizzled; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; LIGAND; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; WNT PROTEIN;

CANCER; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 8444251784     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.20.010403.113126     Document Type: Review

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