Malignant worms: What cancer research can learn from C. elegans

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 264-275

  Saito, R Mako ^a   Van den Heuvel, Sander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RESEARCH; CELL FATE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036198440     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/CNV-120001153     Document Type: Article

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