Morphogens, morphostats, microarchitecture and malignancy

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 464-474

  Potter, John D ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISHEVELLED PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; MORPHOGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; WNT PROTEIN;

BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MATURATION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; INTESTINE CRYPT; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; METAPLASIA; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PANETH CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; STROMA CELL; TERATOCARCINOMA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; METAPLASIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC;

EID: 34249315487     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2146     Document Type: Review

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