Dysregulation of the Hedgehog pathway in human hepatocarcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 748-757

  Sicklick, Jason K ^a,b   Li, Yin Xiong ^b   Jayaraman, Aruna ^a   Kannangai, Rajesh ^a   Qi, Yi ^b   Vivekanandan, Perumal ^a   Ludlow, John W ^c   Owzar, Kouros ^b   Chen, Wei ^b   Torbenson, Michael S ^a   Diehl, Anna Mae ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Vesta Therapeutics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; MYC PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN PATCHED; PROTEIN SMOOTHENED; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAND BINDING; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; TUMOR VOLUME; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 33645371509     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi292     Document Type: Article

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