Galectins: Double-edged Swords in the Cross-roads of Pregnancy Complications and Female Reproductive Tract Inflammation and Neoplasia

• Main Authors: Nandor Gabor Than (Author), Roberto Romero (Author), Andrea Balogh (Author), Eva Karpati (Author), Salvatore Andrea Mastrolia (Author), Orna Staretz-Chacham (Author), Sinuhe Hahn (Author), Offer Erez (Author), Zoltan Papp (Author), Chong Jai Kim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pathologists & the Korean Society for Cytopathology, 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Galectins are an evolutionarily ancient and widely expressed family of lectins that have unique glycan-binding characteristics. They are pleiotropic regulators of key biological processes, such as cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, signal transduction, and pre-mRNA splicing, as...