Secreted Wnt Inhibitors or Modulators

Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease: Molecular Mechanisms and Biological Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 177-193

  Bovolenta, Paola ^a,b   Gorny, Anne Kathrin ^c   Esteve, Pilar ^a,b   Steinbeisser, Herbert ^c  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerberus (Cer); Coco; Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF); Dickkopf; GF binding protein 4 (IGFBP 4); Secreted Frizzled related proteins (sFRPs); Secreted wingless interacting molecule (Swim); Secreted Wnt modulators; Wnt inhibitory factor 1 (WIF); Wnt modulator in surface ectoderm (Wise)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926431827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118444122.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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