Intestinal polyposis in mice with a dominant stable mutation of the β-catenin gene

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 5931-5942

  Harada, Naomoto ^a   Tamai, Yoshitaka ^a   Ishikawa, Tomo O ^a   Sauer, Brian ^c,d   Takaku, Kazuaki ^b   Oshima, Masanobu ^a   Taketo, Makoto M ^b  

^a TAIHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Cell migration; Colon cancer; Tcf Lef; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; RECOMBINASE; SERINE; THREONINE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; EMBRYO CELL; EXON; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; GENE MUTATION; MICROADENOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, DOMINANT; INTEGRASES; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033230616     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.21.5931     Document Type: Article

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