MicroRNAs: Crucial multi-tasking components in the complex circuitry of tumor metastasis

Cell Cycle

Volumn 8, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3506-3512

  Valastyan, Scott ^a,b   Weinberg, Robert A ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Invasion metastasis cascade; Let 7; Metastasis; microRNA; miR 10b; miR 31; Pleiotropy; Tumor initiating cells

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MIR 10B; MIR 126; MIR 148A; MIR 206; MIR 21; MIR 31; MIR 335; MIR 34B/C; MIR 373/520C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER THERAPY; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPREHENSION; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW;

EID: 70449718853     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.8.21.9802     Document Type: Review

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