Targeting medulloblastoma: Small-molecule inhibitors of the Sonic Hedgehog pathway as potential cancer therapeutics

Cancer Research

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4975-4978

  Romer, Justyna ^a   Curran, Tom ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN INHIBITOR; PROTEIN PATCHED 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANIMALS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 20444468917     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-0481     Document Type: Review

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