Semaphorins and plexins as therapeutic targets

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 603-621

  Worzfeld, Thomas ^a,b   Offermanns, Stefan ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLEXIN; PLEXIN A1; PLEXIN A2; PLEXIN A3; PLEXIN A4; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3A; SEMAPHORIN 3B; SEMAPHORIN 3C; SEMAPHORIN 3D; SEMAPHORIN 3E; SEMAPHORIN 3F; SEMAPHORIN 3G; SEMAPHORIN 4A; SEMAPHORIN 4B; SEMAPHORIN 4C; SEMAPHORIN 4D; SEMAPHORIN 4D ANTIBODY; SEMAPHORIN 4F; SEMAPHORIN 4G; SEMAPHORIN 5A; SEMAPHORIN 5B; SEMAPHORIN 6A; SEMAPHORIN 6B; SEMAPHORIN 6C; SEMAPHORIN 6D; SEMAPHORIN 7A; SM 216289; SM 345431; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINAXANTHONE; XANTHONE DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; COLITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPERIMENTAL ARTHRITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIUM; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL COMMUNICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEMAPHORINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84905394859     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: 14741784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd4337     Document Type: Review

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