An essential part for Rho-associated kinase in the transcellular invasion of tumor cells

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-225

  Itoh, Kazuyuki ^a   Yoshioka, Kiyoko ^a   Akedo, Hitoshi ^a   Uehata, Masayoshi ^b   Ishizaki, Toshimasa ^c   Narumiya, Shuh ^c  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^b Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical Indust L   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RHO FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032935495     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/5587     Document Type: Article

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