The Salvador-Warts-Hippo pathway - An emerging tumour-suppressor network

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 182-191

  Harvey, Kieran ^a   Tapon, Nicolas ^b  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN E; MERLIN; NEURONAL APOPTOSIS INHIBITORY PROTEIN;

CARCINOGENESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33847206401     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2070     Document Type: Review

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