Article
Wnt signaling in lip and palate development.
Frontiers of oral biology - 1 Jan 2012
He Fenglei, Chen Yiping
Abstract excerpt
Wnt signaling regulates a variety of cell behaviors and represents a major pathway in development and disease. Mutations in Wnt genes and their downstream targets have been implicated in human craniofacial abnormalities, including the most prevalent birth defect, cleft lip with or without palate. Formation of the upper lip and palate is a complicated process and is composed of a series of highly coordinated steps...
Topics
- Cleft Lip
- Cleft Palate
- Embryonic Development
- Humans
- Lip
- Mutation
- Palate
- Wnt Signaling Pathway
- beta Catenin
