Increased skeletal VEGF enhances β-catenin activity and results in excessively ossified bones
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Increased skeletal VEGF enhances beta-catenin activity and results in excessively ossified bones.
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and beta-catenin both act broadly in embryogenesis and adulthood, including in the skeletal and vascular systems. Increased or deregulated activity of these molecules has been linked to cancer and bone-related pathologies. By using novel mouse models to locally increase VEGF levels in the skeleton, we found that embryonic VEGF over-expression in osteo-c...
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عنوان ژورنال: The EMBO Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0261-4189,1460-2075
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.361