Interventions in Wnt signaling as a novel therapeutic approach to improve myocardial infarct healing

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hermans, Kevin C M ^a   Daskalopoulos, Evangelos P ^a   Blankesteijn, W M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac remodeling; Frizzled; Myocardial infarction; Myofibroblast; Neovascularization; Stem cells; Wnt; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; PYRVINIUM EMBONATE; SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 1; UM 206; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CARDIAC STEM CELL; CELL TYPE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; MYOFIBROBLAST; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84867591701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17551536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-1536-5-16     Document Type: Review

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