Transforming growth factor-β signaling during epithelial-mesenchymal transformation: Implications for embryogenesis and tumor metastasis

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 179, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 11-23

  Nawshad, Ali ^a   LaGamba, Damian ^b   Polad, Ahmad ^a   Hay, Elizabeth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelial mesenchymal transformation; LEF 1; Metastasis; Smad; Transforming growth factor

Indexed keywords

SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MESENCHYME; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LIGANDS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESODERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEURAL CREST; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 22144461325     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084505     Document Type: Article

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