Centrosome aberrations: Cause or consequence of cancer progression?

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 815-825

  Nigg, Erich A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CELL CYCLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE STRUCTURE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; DISEASE COURSE; FORECASTING; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; S PHASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0036831681     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc924     Document Type: Review

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