Lung-targeted expression of the c-Raf-1 kinase in transgenic mice exposes a novel oncogenic character of the wild-type protein

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 185-190

  Kerkhoff, Eugen ^a   Fedorov, Lev M ^a   Siefken, Renate ^a   Walter, Annette O ^a   Papadopoulos, Thomas ^b   Rapp, Ulf R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C RAF 1 KINASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENE MUTATION; LUNG ADENOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEOLIPIDS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0034036430     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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