The role of hedgehog signalling in skeletal health and disease

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 552-560

  Alman, Benjamin A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYCLOPAMINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PURMORPHAMINE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRACONAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISMODEGIB;

BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE DISEASE; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE TUMOR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL VIABILITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; JOINT DEGENERATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE REPAIR; ANIMAL; BONE; BONE DISEASES; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84940600982     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2015.84     Document Type: Review

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