Potential Roles of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)-9 in Human Liver Diseases

Potential Roles of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)-9 in Human Liver Diseases

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP-2 to BMP-15) belong to the Transforming Growth Factor (TGF)-β superfamily and, besides their well-documented roles during embryogenesis and bone formation, some of them have recently been described to be involved in the pathogenesis of different organs, including the...

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Main Authors: Blanca Herrera, Steven Dooley, Katja Breitkopf-Heinlein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-03-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Subjects:
BMP-9
Hepatocellular carcinoma
signaling
physiology
liver
hepatocytes
hepatic stellate cells
angiogenesis
therapy
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/15/4/5199

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