Tumor metastasis: Mechanistic insights and clinical challenges

Nature Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 895-904

  Steeg, Patricia S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; ANTIMETASTATIC AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; CADHERIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HERMES ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID; INTEGRIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PADGEM PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 2; PROTEOGLYCAN; RAC1 PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DORMANCY; DRUG TARGETING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; METASTASIS INHIBITION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 33746851956     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1469     Document Type: Review

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