On the road to cancer: Aneuploidy and the mitotic checkpoint

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 773-785

  Kops, Geert J P L ^a   Weaver, Beth A A ^b   Cleveland, Don W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; BUB1 RELATED PROTEIN; BUB3 PROTEIN; CENTROMERE PROTEIN E; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN MAD1; PROTEIN MAD2; TAXANE DERIVATIVE; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; VINCA ALKALOID;

ANAPHASE; ANEUPLOIDY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOKINESIS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TARGETING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MITOSIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 25844475838     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc1714     Document Type: Review

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