Expression of twist and Wnt in human breast cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 3851-3856

  Watanabe, Osamu ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Shimizu, Tadao ^a   Kinoshita, Jun ^a   Okabe, Toshihiro ^a   Hirano, Akira ^a   Yoshimatsu, Kazuhiko ^a   Konno, Soichi ^a   Aiba, Motohiko ^a   Ogawa, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Twist; Wnt

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN; WNT2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TWIST1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; WNT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; WNT2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UP-REGULATION; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; WNT2 PROTEIN;

EID: 20144387626     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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