Galectins as modulators of tumour progression

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-41

  Liu, Fu Tong ^a   Rabinovich, Gabriel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDE; GALECTIN 1; GALECTIN 2; GALECTIN 3; GALECTIN 4; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GALECTINS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 11144241063     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1527     Document Type: Review

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