December 2009 in “Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature”
This study found that in keratin 14-targeted transgenic mice, BMP antagonism via noggin led to the development of hair follicle tumors, mediated through alterations in Wnt and Shh signaling pathways.
5 citations
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January 2022 in “Health Science Reports”
This study observed that GREM2 was specifically and robustly expressed in the dermal sheath cup of hair follicles during various hair cycle phases, suggesting its significant role in regulating hair cycling processes through BMP signaling.
176 citations
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January 2003 in “Journal of Investigative Dermatology”
This review summarizes the roles of bonemorphogeneticproteins in the development and regulation of normal and diseased skin, but it does not provide new clinical results.
39 citations
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March 2008 in “Journal of biological chemistry/The Journal of biological chemistry”
This study found that GLI2 plays a key role in activating follistatin, an activin/BMP antagonist, in response to hedgehog signaling in human epidermal cells, with implications for hair follicle development and basal cell carcinoma.