Identification of MFG-E8 as a novel therapeutic target for diseases

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1275-1285

  Li, Bao Zhu ^a   Zhang, Hai Yan ^a   Pan, Hai Feng ^a   Ye, Dong Qing ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age related diseases; Apoptosis; Inflammatory diseases; Milk fat globule EGF factor 8; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Tumors

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHOSPHOLIPID; BETA3 INTEGRIN; BETA5 INTEGRIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 4; FRACTALKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 23P19; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTADHERIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; MYELOPEROXIDASE; OSTEOPONTIN; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAC1 PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; BINDING SITE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FOLLICULAR DENDRITIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GERMINAL CENTER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LAMINA PROPRIA; METASTASIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS TUMOR; PERITONEUM MACROPHAGE; PHAGOCYTE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WOUND HEALING;

ANTIGENS, SURFACE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MILK PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84886938887     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: 17447631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.2013.829455     Document Type: Review

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