Take the Wnt out of the inflammatory sails: Modulatory effects of Wnt in airway diseases

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 177-185

  Reuter, Sebastian ^a   Beckert, Hendrik ^b   Taube, Christian ^c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER BORSTEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELL POPULATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC CELLS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84955576338     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2015.143     Document Type: Article

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