Activation of the transcription factor Gli1 and the sonic hedgehog signalling pathway in skin tumours

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 876-881

  Dahmane, N ^a   Lee, J ^a   Robins, P ^b   Heller, P ^b   Ruiz I Altaba, A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030844141     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39918     Document Type: Article

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