Wnt signalling in mammalian development and cancer

Cancer and Metastasis Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 215-230

  Smalley, Matthew J ^a   Dale, Trevor C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dishevelled; Frizzled; Glycogen synthase kinase 3 ; Transformation; Tumour

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LIGANDS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0033392360     PISSN: 01677659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006369223282     Document Type: Review

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