Links between transforming growth factor-β and canonical Wnt signaling yield new insights into breast cancer susceptibility, suppression and tumor heterogeneity

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Incassati, Angela ^a   Pinderhughes, Alicia ^a   Eelkema, Rachel ^a   Cowin, Pamela ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT5A PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STEM CELL; TUMOR MODEL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RISK; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; METABOLISM; NOTE; ONCOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 74049110947     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr2253     Document Type: Editorial

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