Corneal endothelial cell fate is maintained by LGR5 through the regulation of hedgehog and Wnt pathway

Stem Cells

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1396-1407

  Hirata Tominaga, Kana ^a   Nakamura, Takahiro ^a,b   Okumura, Naoki ^a,b   Kawasaki, Satoshi ^a   Kay, Eunduck P ^b   Barrandon, Yann ^c   Koizumi, Noriko ^a,b   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cornea; Endothelium; Hedgehog; LGR5; Stem cell; Wnt

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE RICH REPEAT CONTAINING G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LIGAND; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STEM CELL;

CORNEA; ENDOTHELIUM; HEDGEHOG; LGR5; STEM CELL; WNT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ERINACEIDAE; MUS;

EID: 84879894629     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/stem.1390     Document Type: Article

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