The Morphogenetic Code and Colon Cancer Development

Cancer Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-117

  van den Brink, Gijs R ^a,b,c   Offerhaus, G Johan ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; KERATINOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CANCER GENETICS; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL FATE; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW;

EID: 33846833986     PISSN: 15356108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2007.01.003     Document Type: Review

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