Extracellular Matrix degradation and remodeling in development and disease

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Pengfei ^a,b   Takai, Ken ^b   Weaver, Valerie M ^c   Werb, Zena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84555179609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a005058     Document Type: Article

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