Dissecting the role of cadherin-catenin proteins in mammalian epidermis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 40, 2008, Pages 15225-15226

  Lien, Wen Hui ^a,b   Stepniak, Ewa ^a   Vasioukhin, Valeri ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERIN; CADHERIN P; CATENIN; PROTEIN P120; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CYTOKINESIS; EPIDERMIS; GENE DELETION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; MAMMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CATENINS; EPIDERMIS; MICE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 55749108541     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808458105     Document Type: Note

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