Wnt5a and PKC, a deadly partnership involved in melanoma invasion

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 258-259

  Medrano, Estela E ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C; WNT5A PROTEIN;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOGENESIS; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROTEIN KINASE C; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 34447328065     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: 16000749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.2007.00383.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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