Connective Tissue Growth Factor

"Connective Tissue Growth Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
A CCN protein family member that regulates a variety of extracellular functions including CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; and EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX synthesis. It is found in hypertrophic CHONDROCYTES where it may play a role in CHONDROGENESIS and endochondral ossification.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Connective Tissue Growth Factor" by people in this website by year, and whether "Connective Tissue Growth Factor" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 34 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2005 and 2007 and 2008 and 2010 and 2011 and 2012
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.