Hedgehog and Resident Vascular Stem Cell Fate

Stem Cells International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mooney, Ciaran J ^a   Hakimjavadi, Roya ^a   Fitzpatrick, Emma ^a   Kennedy, Eimear ^a   Walls, Dermot ^b   Morrow, David ^c   Redmond, Eileen M ^c   Cahill, Paul A ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESIDENT VASCULAR STEM CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEM CELL; STEM CELL NICHE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR REMODELING;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 84929649135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16879678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/468428     Document Type: Review

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