Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7035, 2005, Pages 843-850

  Reya, Tannishtha ^a   Clevers, Hans ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CELLS; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASES; GROWTH KINETICS; HEALTH CARE; SIGNALING; TISSUE;

CANCER CELLS; GROWTH REGULATORS; STEM CELLS; WNT SIGNALLING;

TUMORS;

APC PROTEIN; AXIN; BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN D1; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; SMAD4 PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL RENEWAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE VILLUS; KERATINOCYTE; LEUKEMIA; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE K RAS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CANCER; STEM CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 17244376814     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03319     Document Type: Review

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