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Wnt Proteins

"Wnt Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Wnt proteins are a large family of secreted glycoproteins that play essential roles in EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT, and tissue maintenance. They bind to FRIZZLED RECEPTORS and act as PARACRINE PROTEIN FACTORS to initiate a variety of SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS. The canonical Wnt signaling pathway stabilizes the transcriptional coactivator BETA CATENIN.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Wnt Proteins" by people in this website by year, and whether "Wnt Proteins" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 87 publications over 27 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2004 and 2010 and 2014
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