Meanings
- pluralplural of glycolipoprotein
Wnts are cysteine-rich glycolipoproteins that act as paracrine or autocrine ligands believed to engage in short-range signaling ( Willert et al., 2003 ; Willert and Nusse, 2012 ).
2015, Soumyashree Das et al., “Rab8a vesicles regulate Wnt ligand delivery and Paneth cell maturation at the intestinal stem cell niche”, in Development (Cambridge, England), volume 142, →DOI
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