Cell adhesion system and human cancer morphogenesis

Cancer Science

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 575-581

  Hirohashi, Setsuo ^a   Kanai, Yae ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CATENIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; DYSADHERIN; GENE PRODUCT; ONCOPROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CANCER CELL; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0041561057     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2003.tb01485.x     Document Type: Review

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