WNT5A is a regulator of fibroblast proliferation and resistance to apoptosis.

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Published in Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol on February 27, 2009

Authors

Louis J Vuga1, Ahmi Ben-Yehudah, Elizabetha Kovkarova-Naumovski, Timothy Oriss, Kevin F Gibson, Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Naftali Kaminski

Author Affiliations

1: Dorothy P. and Richard P. Simmons Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

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