- ►fasebj.org GR Grotendorst, MR Duncan - The FASEB Journal, 2005 - FASEB All members of the Ctgf, Cyr61, and Nov (CCN) family share a high degree of
sequence homology and conservation of structural motifs and domains. Here, we
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N Chen, SJ Leu, V Todorovic, SCT Lam, LF … - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2004 - ASBMB CCN1 (CYR61) is a matricellular inducer of angiogenesis essential for successful
vascular development. Though devoid of the canonical RGD sequence motif
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- ►aacrjournals.org N Dornhofer, S Spong, K Bennewith, A Salim, … - Cancer Research, 2006 - AACR Pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the most lethal cancers. More then
30,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer are diagnosed annually in the US Mortality
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F SA, PR LT, LW KR, HP RG - Kidney international, 2005 - nature.com Seventy-one hypertensive type 1 diabetic patients with diabetic nephropathy were
included in the study. After a washout period of 4 weeks, the patients received
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- ►diabetesjournals.org TQ Nguyen, L Tarnow, S Andersen, P Hovind … - Diabetes care, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc OBJECTIVE—Levels of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF; CCN-2) in plasma
are increased in various fibrotic disorders, including diabetic nephropathy.
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of liver fibrogenesis, the most serious complication of chronic inflammatory
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hallmark of fibrotic disease, including scleroderma. CTGF acts with the
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- ►cardiovascres.org A Leask - Cardiovascular research, 2007 - cardiovascres.org Normal tissue repair requires that new connective tissue be produced. To achieve
this end, fibroblasts must proliferate and migrate into the wound, where they
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