Drosophila neoplasias: Clues towards the understanding of human cancers

Current Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 251-256

  Woodhouse, Elisa C ^a   Liotta, L A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dlg; Drosophila; Lgl; Neoplasia; Scrib; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUANYLATE KINASE; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GUANYLATE CYCLASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PDZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN E6;

ANIMAL MODEL; CANCER MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 22144495035     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389202054395946     Document Type: Review

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