Implication of galectin-3 in Wnt signaling

Cancer Research

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3535-3537

  Shimura, Tatsuo ^a,b   Takenaka, Yukinori ^a,c   Fukumori, Tomoharu ^a,d   Tsutsumi, Soichi ^a,b   Okada, Kohji ^b   Hogan, Victor ^a   Kikuchi, Akira ^e   Kuwano, Hiroyuki ^b   Raz, Avraham ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^e HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIN; BETA CATENIN; GALAPTIN; GALECTIN 3; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GALECTIN 3; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 18144383499     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-0104     Document Type: Article

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