Regulation of mammary stem/progenitor cells by PTEN/Akt/β-catenin signaling

PLoS Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Korkaya, Hasan ^a   Paulson, Amanda ^a   Charafe Jauffret, Emmanuelle ^b   Ginestier, Christophe ^a   Brown, Marty ^a   Dutcher, Julie ^a   Clouthier, Shawn G ^a   Wicha, Max S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; PERIFOSINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; WNT PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PTEN PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STEM CELL; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STEM CELL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UDDER;

MUS;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 67649969473     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000121     Document Type: Article

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