The CCN family acting throughout the body: Recent research developments

Biomolecular Concepts

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 477-494

  Kubota, Satoshi ^a   Takigawa, Masaharu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CCN family; Fibrosis; Gene regulation; Malignancy; Matricellular protein

Indexed keywords

CCN PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEOPLASM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CCN INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PROTEINS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84888625806     PISSN: 18685021     EISSN: 1868503X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bmc-2013-0018     Document Type: Article

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