Fritz: a secreted frizzled-related protein that inhibits Wnt activity
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Fritz: a secreted frizzled-related protein that inhibits Wnt activity
Signaling molecules of the Wnt gene family are involved in the regulation of dorso-ventral, segmental and tissue polarity in Xenopus and Drosophila embryos. Members of the frizzled gene family, such as Drosophila frizzled-2 and rat frizzled-1, have been shown encode Wnt binding activity and to engage intracellular signal transduction molecules known to be part of the Wnt signaling pathway. Here...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mechanisms of Development
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0925-4773
DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(97)00035-x