[HTML][HTML] Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) signaling in development and human diseases

RN Wang, J Green, Z Wang, Y Deng, M Qiao… - Genes & diseases, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are a group of signaling molecules that
belongs to the Transforming Growth Factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily of proteins. Initially …

[HTML][HTML] Wnt/β-catenin signaling links embryonic lung development and asthmatic airway remodeling

M Hussain, C Xu, M Lu, X Wu, L Tang, X Wu - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2017 - Elsevier
Embryonic lung development requires reciprocal endodermal-mesodermal interactions;
mediated by various signaling proteins. Wnt/β-catenin is a signaling protein that exhibits the …

[HTML][HTML] In utero exposures to electronic-cigarette aerosols impair the Wnt signaling during mouse lung development

A Noël, S Hansen, A Zaman… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Currently, more than 9 million American adults, including women of childbearing age, use
electronic-cigarettes (e-cigs). Further, the prevalence of maternal va** now approaching …

Pluripotent stem cell differentiation reveals distinct developmental pathways regulating lung-versus thyroid-lineage specification

M Serra, KD Alysandratos, F Hawkins… - …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
The in vitro-directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) through stimulation of
developmental signaling pathways can generate mature somatic cell types for basic …

An eye on the Wnt inhibitory factor Wif1

L Poggi, S Casarosa, M Carl - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The coordinated interplay between extrinsic activating and repressing cell signaling
molecules is pivotal for embryonic development and subsequent tissue homeostasis. This is …

Hippo and TGF-β interplay in the lung field

A Saito, T Nagase - American Journal of Physiology-Lung …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
The Hippo pathway is comprised of a kinase cascade that involves mammalian Ste20-like
serine/threonine kinases (MST1/2) and large tumor suppressor kinases (LATS1/2) and leads …

Few Smad proteins and many Smad-interacting proteins yield multiple functions and action modes in TGFβ/BMP signaling in vivo

A Conidi, S Cazzola, K Beets, K Coddens… - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2011 - Elsevier
Signaling by the many ligands of the TGFβ family strongly converges towards only five
receptor-activated, intracellular Smad proteins, which fall into two classes ie Smad2/3 and …

Branch mode selection during early lung development

D Menshykau, C Kraemer, D Iber - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Many organs of higher organisms, such as the vascular system, lung, kidney, pancreas, liver
and glands, are heavily branched structures. The branching process during lung …

Spatial-temporal targeting of lung-specific mesenchyme by a Tbx4enhancer

W Zhang, DB Menke, M Jiang, H Chen, D Warburton… - BMC biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Reciprocal interactions between lung mesenchymal and epithelial cells play
essential roles in lung organogenesis and homeostasis. Although the molecular markers …

Activation of the canonical bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) pathway during lung morphogenesis and adult lung tissue repair

A Sountoulidis, A Stavropoulos, S Giaglis, E Apostolou… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Signaling by Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMP) has been implicated in early lung
development, adult lung homeostasis and tissue-injury repair. However, the precise …