Chromosome segregation and cancer: Cutting through the mystery

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-117

  Jallepalli, Prasad V ^a   Lengauer, Christoph ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BUB1 SPINDLE CHECKPOINT PROTEIN; BUB3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BUB3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GROWTH INHIBITOR; MAD PROTEIN, MOUSE; MAD2L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MXD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; KARYOTYPING; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, APC; GENES, CDC; GROWTH INHIBITORS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0035524309     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35101065     Document Type: Article

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