The circadian clock: Pacemaker and tumour suppressor

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 350-361

  Fu, Loning ^a   Lee, Cheng Chi ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONOTHERAPY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLOCK; OSCILLATION; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EYE PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0037711399     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1072     Document Type: Review

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