Spontaneous transformation of a clonal population of dermis-derived multipotent cells in culture

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Animal

Volumn 43, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 290-296

  Shi, Chunmeng ^a   Mai, Yue ^a   Zhu, Ying ^a   Cheng, Tianmin ^a   Su, Yongping ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adult stem cells; K ras; Malignancy

Indexed keywords

K RAS PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROMA; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; DERMIS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; RAS PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION;

MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS;

EID: 38149095779     PISSN: 10712690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11626-007-9056-y     Document Type: Article

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