Sonic Hedgehog signaling in advanced prostate cancer

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 435-448

  Datta, S ^a   Datta, M W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hedgehog; Metastasis; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYCLOPAMINE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ALLELE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 33645083201     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-005-5389-4     Document Type: Review

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