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CCN PROTEINS
A New Family of Cell Growth and Differentiation Regulators


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
i
THE CCN FAMILY OF PROTEINS: AN OVERVIEW
Bernard Perbal and Masaharu Takigawa
1
ROLES OF CCN2/CTGF IN THE CONTROL OF GROWTH AND REGENERATION
Masaharu Takigawa, Takashi Nishida and Satoshi Kubota
19
INTEGRIN-MEDIATED CCN FUNCTIONS
Lester F. Lau and Stephen C. -T. Lam
61
EXPRESSION AND ROLES OF CCN2 DURING ODONTOGENESIS
Manabu Kanyama, Tsuyoshi Shimo, Changshan Wu, Hiroki Sugito, Masahiro Iwamoto, Maurizio Pacifici and Eiki Koyama
81
CCN GENES AND THE KIDNEY
Bruce L. Riser, Sujatha Karoor and Darryl R. Peterson
95
CCN PROTEINS IN LIVER INJURY AND DISEASE
Amy W. Rachfal and David R. Brigstock
117
GENETIC ANALYSIS OF CCN GENE FUNCTION IN MAMMALIAN DEVELOPMENT
Lisa M. Dornbach and Karen M. Lyons
135
CCN FAMILY IN EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT (NON-MAMMALIAN MODELS)
Branko V. Latinkic
153
CCN3 EXPRESSION AND ITS ROLE DURING DEVELOPMENT
Ken-ichi Katsube
167
REGULATION OF CCN PROTEINS BY ALTERATIONS OF THE CYTOSKELETON
Brahim Chaqour and Margarete Goppelt-Struebe
177
PATHOGENESIS OF SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS AND CCN2 (CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR)
Kazuhiko Takehara
197
FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF CCN5
Mark R. Gray and John J. Castellot, Jr.
207
CCN3: A MULTIFUNCTIONAL SIGNALING REGULATOR
Nathalie Planque, Anne-Marie Bleau and Bernard Perbal
239
CCN PROTEINS AND CONNEXINS: INTERACTIONS AND GROWTH CONTROL
Christine Fu, Alexandra Gellhaus, Elke Winterhager and Christian C. Naus
259
THE ROLE OF CCN1 IN TUMORIGENESIS AND CANCER PROGRESSION
James O'Kelly and H. Phillip Koeffler
273
CCN4 AND CCN6 VARIANTS IN WNT-INDUCIBLE SIGNALING PATHWAY
Shinji Tanaka
293
BACK MATTER
305
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