Targeting aurora-2 kinase in cancer

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 589-595

  Warner, Steven L ^a   Bearss, David J ^a   Han, Haiyong ^a   Von Hoff, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AURORA KINASE; CYCLIN B; CYCLIN B1; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTROSOME; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CENTROSOME; CYCLIN B; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; MITOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 1542543989     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: 15388514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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