Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in Development and Disease

Cell

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 469-480

  Clevers, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; WNT PROTEIN;

COLON CARCINOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFT TISSUE; TRICHILEMMOMA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33746808398     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.10.018     Document Type: Review

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