Wnt/β-catenin signalling: function, biological mechanisms, and therapeutic opportunities

J Liu, Q **ao, J **ao, C Niu, Y Li, X Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The Wnt/β-catenin pathway comprises a family of proteins that play critical roles in
embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis. The deregulation of Wnt/β-catenin …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling and disease

H Clevers, R Nusse - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The WNT signal transduction cascade controls myriad biological phenomena throughout
development and adult life of all animals. In parallel, aberrant Wnt signaling underlies a …

Cell signaling and transcriptional regulation of osteoblast lineage commitment, differentiation, bone formation, and homeostasis

S Zhu, W Chen, A Masson, YP Li - Cell Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
The initiation of osteogenesis primarily occurs as mesenchymal stem cells undergo
differentiation into osteoblasts. This differentiation process plays a crucial role in bone …

WNT signaling in bone homeostasis and disease: from human mutations to treatments

R Baron, M Kneissel - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Low bone mass and strength lead to fragility fractures, for example, in elderly individuals
affected by osteoporosis or children with osteogenesis imperfecta. A decade ago, rare …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and disease

H Clevers - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
A remarkable interdisciplinary effort has unraveled the WNT (Wingless and INT-1) signal
transduction cascade over the last two decades. Wnt genes encode small secreted proteins …

Wnt/β-catenin signaling components and mechanisms in bone formation, homeostasis, and disease

L Hu, W Chen, A Qian, YP Li - Bone Research, 2024 - nature.com
Wnts are secreted, lipid-modified proteins that bind to different receptors on the cell surface
to activate canonical or non-canonical Wnt signaling pathways, which control various …

WNT as a driver and dependency in cancer

MJ Parsons, T Tammela, LE Dow - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
The WNT signaling pathway is a critical regulator of development and adult tissue
homeostasis and becomes dysregulated in many cancer types. Although hyperactivation of …

Wnt signaling pathway: A comprehensive review

R Hayat, M Manzoor, A Hussain - Cell biology international, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wnt signaling is an evolutionary cell‐to‐cell coordination mechanism and it is highly critical
for a variety of physiological processes of an organism's body, including stem cell …

The osteocyte: an endocrine cell… and more

SL Dallas, M Prideaux, LF Bonewald - Endocrine reviews, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Few investigators think of bone as an endocrine gland, even after the discovery that
osteocytes produce circulating fibroblast growth factor 23 that targets the kidney and …

Building strong bones: molecular regulation of the osteoblast lineage

F Long - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
The past 15 years have witnessed tremendous progress in the molecular understanding of
osteoblasts, the main bone-forming cells in the vertebrate skeleton. In particular, all of the …