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Evolution of the Fgf and Fgfr gene families

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The expansion of the Fgf and Fgfr gene families has enabled this signaling system to acquire functional diversity and, therefore, an almost ubiquitous involvement in developmental and physiological processes.
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This article is published in Trends in Genetics.The article was published on 2004-11-01. It has received 1050 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fibroblast growth factor & Gene family.

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Klotho converts canonical FGF receptor into a specific receptor for FGF23

TL;DR: It is shown that a previously undescribed receptor conversion by Klotho, a senescence-related molecule, generates the FGF23 receptor, and insights into the diversity and specificity of interactions between FGF and FGF receptors are provided.
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The FGF family: biology, pathophysiology and therapy.

TL;DR: Traditional applications of recombinant FGFs and small-molecule FGF receptor kinase inhibitors in the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease and their emerging potential in thetreatment of metabolic syndrome and hypophosphataemic diseases are discussed.
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The Fibroblast Growth Factor signaling pathway

TL;DR: Members of the FGF family function in the earliest stages of embryonic development and during organogenesis to maintain progenitor cells and mediate their growth, differentiation, survival, and patterning.
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Fibroblast growth factor/fibroblast growth factor receptor system in angiogenesis.

TL;DR: This review will focus on the relevance of the FGF/FGF receptor system in adult angiogenesis and its contribution to tumor vascularization.
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Fibroblast growth factors

TL;DR: A subset of the FGF family, expressed in adult tissue, is important for neuronal signal transduction in the central and peripheral nervous systems.
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Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

Richard A. Gibbs, +242 more
- 01 Apr 2004 - 
TL;DR: This first comprehensive analysis of the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain is reported, which is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution.

Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolutionRat Genome Sequencing Project ConsortiumNature200442849352115057822

Richard A. Gibbs, +226 more
Abstract: The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain. The sequence represents a high-quality ‘draft’ covering over 90% of the genome. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution. This first comprehensive analysis includes genes and proteins and their relation to human disease, repeated sequences, comparative genome-wide studies of mammalian orthologous chromosomal regions and rearrangement breakpoints, reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes and the events leading to existing species, rates of variation, and lineage-specific and lineage-independent evolutionary events such as expansion of gene families, orthology relations and protein evolution.
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Fibroblast growth factors, their receptors and signaling.

TL;DR: FGF signaling also appears to play a role in tumor growth and angiogenesis, and autocrine FGF signaling may be particularly important in the progression of steroid hormone-dependent cancers to a hormone-independent state.
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