RET and neuroendocrine tumors

Pituitary

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-192

  Murakumo, Yoshiki ^a   Jijiwa, Mayumi ^a   Asai, Naoya ^a   Ichihara, Masatoshi ^a   Takahashi, Masahide ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germline mutation; MEN2; Neuroendocrine tumors; RET; Signaling pathway; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

ARTEMIN; CEP 701; CEP 751; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IMATINIB; NEURTURIN; ONCOPROTEIN; OXINDOLE; PERSEPHIN; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SORAFENIB; SUNITINIB; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VANDETANIB;

CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GERM LINE; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2B; MUTATION; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33751016390     PISSN: 1386341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11102-006-0263-4     Document Type: Review

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