TGFβ signaling in liver regeneration

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 18, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 4103-4113

  Karkampouna, Sofia ^a   ten Dijke, Peter ^a   Dooley, Steven ^b   Kruithof de Julio, Marianna ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hepatic progenitor cells; Hepatocytes; Liver; Regeneration; TGF

Indexed keywords

SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 3; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3;

HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER REGENERATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84866313199     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138161212802430521     Document Type: Review

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