Eyeing tumorigenesis: Notch signaling and epigenetic silencing of Rb in Drosophila

BioEssays

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 692-695

  Axelson, Håkan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE SILENCING; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; RBF GENE; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33747505460     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20428     Document Type: Review

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