Pathological responses to oncogenic Hedgehog signaling in skin are dependent on canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1130-1135

  Hoseong Yang, Steven ^a   Andl, Thomas ^b,d   Grachtchouk, Vladimir ^a,e   Wang, Aiqin ^a   Liu, Jianhong ^a   Syu, Li Jyun ^a   Ferris, Jenny ^a   Wang, Timothy S ^a   Glick, Adam B ^c   Millar, Sarah E ^b   Dlugosz, Andrzej A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CELL BUDDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EPIDERMIS CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; M2SMO GENE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CELL LINEAGE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAMARTOMA; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WNT PROTEINS;

ERINACEIDAE; MUS;

EID: 50449084075     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.192     Document Type: Article

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