Akt pathway activation converts anaplastic astrocytoma to glioblastoma multiforme in a human astrocyte model of glioma

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 6674-6678

  Sonoda, Y ^a   Ozawa, T ^a   Aldape, K D ^a   Deen, D F ^a   Berger, M S ^a   Pieper, R O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN E6; PROTEIN E7; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAS PROTEIN; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0035884505     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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