Understanding transformation: Progress and gaps

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-17

  Boehm, Jesse S ^a   Hahn, William C ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL TYPE; GENETIC DISORDER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE;

EID: 12344321466     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2004.11.003     Document Type: Review

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