The Gli code: an information nexus regulating cell fate, stemness and cancer

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 438-447

  Ruiz i Altaba, Ariel ^a   Mas, Christophe ^a   Stecca, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1;

CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FATE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; ONCOGENES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ERINACEIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34848901657     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2007.06.007     Document Type: Review

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