A causal role for E-cadherin in the transition from adenoma to carcinoma

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6672, 1998, Pages 190-193

  Perl, Anne Karina ^a   Wilgenbus, Petra ^a   Dahl, Ulf ^b   Semb, Henrik ^b   Christofori, Gerhard ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032510494     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32433     Document Type: Article

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