Involvement of the Akt/PKB signaling pathway with disease processes

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 253, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 241-246

  Sen, Prosenjit ^a   Mukherjee, Sebanti ^a   Ray, Doel ^a   Raha, Sanghamitra ^a  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Akt PKB; Apoptosis; Glucose metabolism; Growth factors; Insulin; Survival

Indexed keywords

6 PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; INSULIN; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHIBITION KINETICS; LUNG CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL SURVIVAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; INSULIN; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0142150204     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026020101379     Document Type: Review

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