Wnt Signaling in Bone Development and Disease: Making Stronger Bone with Wnts
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Wnt signaling in bone development and disease: making stronger bone with Wnts.
The skeleton as an organ is widely distributed throughout the entire vertebrate body. Wnt signaling has emerged to play major roles in almost all aspects of skeletal development and homeostasis. Because abnormal Wnt signaling causes various human skeletal diseases, Wnt signaling has become a focal point of intensive studies in skeletal development and disease. As a result, promising effective t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1943-0264
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a007997