Interplay between notch signaling and epigenetic silencers in cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 66, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 8931-8934

  Dominguez, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN RBF 2; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; METASTASIS; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILENCER GENE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SILENCING; GENES, RETINOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33749461057     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-1858     Document Type: Review

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