Mammary-specific Ron receptor overexpression induces highly metastatic mammary tumors associated with β-catenin activation

Cancer Research

Volumn 66, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11967-11974

  Zinser, Glendon M ^a   Leonis, Mike A ^a   Toney, Kenya ^a   Pathrose, Peterson ^a   Thobe, Megan ^a   Kader, Sarah A ^a   Peace, Belinda E ^a   Beauman, Shirelyn R ^a   Collins, Margaret H ^a   Waltz, Susan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN D1; MYC PROTEIN; PROTEIN RON RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

EID: 33846260581     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-06-2473     Document Type: Article

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