| Literature DB >> 21720305 |
Anne Wuebken1, Kai M Schmidt-Ott.
Abstract
Cystic kidney diseases have been linked to defective WNT signal transduction. Perturbations of cystic disease genes cause activation of canonical WNT/β-catenin/TCF/Lef1 signaling in model organisms and cultured cells. Inappropriate levels of WNT/β-catenin signaling cause renal cyst formation in mice. These observations have prompted the idea that an activation of WNT/β-catenin signaling may constitute a common causative event in cyst formation. Now this view is challenged by key genetic mouse models of cystic kidney disease that do not display WNT/β-catenin activity in cyst-lining epithelia.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21720305 DOI: 10.1038/ki.2011.87
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Kidney Int ISSN: 0085-2538 Impact factor: 10.612