Drosophila as an emerging model to study metastasis

Genome Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Kango Singh, Madhuri ^a   Halder, Georg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN; RECOMBINASE; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F; UVOMORULIN;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; INSECT GENETICS; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 2442436982     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-4-216     Document Type: Short Survey

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