p53 in health and disease

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-283

  Vousden, Karen H ^a   Lane, David P ^b  

^a BEATSON INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HLI 98; NUTLIN 3; PROTEIN P53; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE STRESS; AGING; APOPTOSIS; CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA DAMAGE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTOXICITY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEALTH; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; DNA DAMAGE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 33947534030     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2147     Document Type: Review

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