Activated ras regulates the proliferation/apoptosis balance and early survival of developing micrometastases

Cancer Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 887-891

  Varghese, Hemanth J ^a   Davidson, Melanie T M ^a   MacDonald, Ian C ^a   Nadkarni, Kishore V ^a   Groom, Alan C ^a   Chambers, Ann F ^a,a,b   Wilson, Sylvia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVASATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; LIVER SINUSOID; MESENTERIC VEIN; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RAS PROTEINS;

EID: 0036468877     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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