Galectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that are involved in many physiological
functions, such as inflammation, immune responses, cell migration, autophagy and …

Galectins are a family of animal lectins that bind β-galactosides. Outside the cell, galectins
bind to cell-surface and extracellular matrix glycans and thereby affect a variety of cellular …

Many galectin family members are detected primarily intracellularly in most of the systems
studied, although certain members can be found both inside and outside of cells. Specific …

Galectins, which were first characterized in the mid-1970s, were assigned a role in the
recognition of endogenous ('self') carbohydrate ligands in embryogenesis, development and …

With the rapid explosion of genomic sequence databases, there has been an equivalent
boom in genomics, the use of sequence information to define and compare gene families …

Some proteins we now regard as animal lectins were discovered before plant lectins, though
many were not recognised as carbohydrate-binding proteins for many years after first being …

This is the second edition of our little red book Lectins published in 1989. In the intervening
years well over 10,000 articles have appeared with lectins as the main subject, and more …

The galectins are a family of carbohydrate-binding proteins that are distributed widely in
metazoan organisms. Each galectin exhibits a specific pattern of expression in various cells …

Galectins form a family of structurally related carbohydrate binding proteins (lectins) that
have been identified in a large variety of metazoan phyla. They are involved in many …

Peri-implantation conceptus (embryo/fetus and associated extraembryonic membranes)
growth and development are primarily regulated by secretions from the uterus. This study …