Embryonic and tumorigenic pathways converge via Nodal signaling: Role in melanoma aggressiveness

Nature Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 925-932

  Topczewska, Jolanta M ^a   Postovit, Lynne Marie ^a   Margaryan, Naira V ^a   Sam, Anthony ^a   Hess, Angela R ^a   Wheaton, William W ^a   Nickoloff, Brian J ^b   Topczewski, Jacek ^a   Hendrix, Mary J C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN NODAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INVASION; CELL TYPE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 33746846469     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1448     Document Type: Article

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