TGF-β family signaling in stem cells

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1830, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2280-2296

  Sakaki Yumoto, Masayo ^a   Katsuno, Yoko ^a   Derynck, Rik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cell; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Niche; Pluripotency; Reprogramming; Somatic stem cell

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; MICRORNA; MYOSTATIN; NOGGIN; PROTEIN NODAL; SMAD4 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; WNT PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; COLON CANCER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GLIOBLASTOMA STEM CELL; HAIR FOLLICLE STEM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; INTESTINAL STEM CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIC STEM CELL; MAMMARY STEM CELL; MELANOCYTE STEM CELL; MELANOMA; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PANCREAS CANCER; PLURIPOTENCY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE STEM CELL; SKIN STEM CELL; SOMATIC STEM CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STEM CELL; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR STROMAL CELL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84872499322     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: 18728006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2012.08.008     Document Type: Review

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