SDC4, syndecan 4, 6385

N. diseases: 71; N. variants: 1
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0342649
Disease: Vascular calcification
Vascular calcification
0.010 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Our discoveries that FGF-2 and syndecan-4 expression is increased in mineralizing VSMCs and that PKCα regulates FGF-2 and TGFβ signalling in VSMCs suggests that the syndecan-4/FGF-2/TGFβ signalling axis could represent a new therapeutic target for vascular calcification. 29016732 2017