Kremen is beyond a subsidiary co-receptor of Wnt signaling: An in silico validation

Turkish Journal of Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 501-510

  Mohammadpour, Hemn ^a   Khalili, Saeed ^a   Hashemi, Zahra Sadat ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dkk 3; Kremen 1; Molecular docking; Protein modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981713400     PISSN: 13000152     EISSN: 13036092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/biy-1409-1     Document Type: Article

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