Overlapping Functions of Ras and Rac GTPases in Regulating Cancer Cell Proliferation and Invasion

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2 B, 2004, Pages 593-597

  Crowe, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Growth factor; Migration; Mitogen activated protein kinase; Signal; Transduction

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; RAC GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAC PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAC1 GENE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS;

EID: 2442453725     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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