Blockade of the TGF-β superfamily by Smad7: Breaking a link in the metastatic chain

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 97, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1714-1715

  Fidler, Isaiah J ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GELATINASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; OCCLUDIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 28944439256     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dji437     Document Type: Editorial

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