Wnt signalling and cancer stem cells

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 411-427

  Espada, Jesús ^a   Calvo, Moisés B ^b   Díaz Prado, Silvia ^c   Medina, Vanessa ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b A Coruña Biomedical Research Institute INIBIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

catenin; APC; Cancer; Cancer stem cells

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER STEM CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 70349719141     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-009-0380-4     Document Type: Article

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