Targeting BMP signalling in cardiovascular disease and anaemia

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 106-120

  Morrell, Nicholas W ^a   Bloch, Donald B ^b   Ten Dijke, Peter ^c   Goumans, Marie Jose T H ^c   Hata, Akiko ^d   Smith, Jim ^e   Yu, Paul B ^f   Bloch, Kenneth D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g Department of Anaesthesia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 1; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 10; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 9; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1A; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN RECEPTOR 1B; ENDOGLIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; JAGGED1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 96; MYOCARDIN; NOTCH RECEPTOR; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; LIGAND;

ANEMIA; ANGIOGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIAL CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; LYMPH FLOW; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PHENOTYPE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; POLYPOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PULMONARY ARTERY SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM;

ANEMIA; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84955375374     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2015.156     Document Type: Review

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