Involvement of the IGF system in fetal growth and childhood cancer: An overview of potential mechanisms

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1783-1798

  Callan, Anna Carita ^a   Milne, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Insulin like growth factors; Molecular epidemiology

Indexed keywords

PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A; PROTEINASE; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTOMA; BINDING AFFINITY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DECIDUA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPENDYMOMA; FETUS GROWTH; GENOMICS; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INTRALOBAR NEPHROGENIC REST; LYMPHOPOIESIS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; PERILOBAR NEPHROGENIC REST; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRECANCER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WAGR SYNDROME;

AGE OF ONSET; CHILD; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS;

EID: 71349088584     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-009-9378-z     Document Type: Review

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