The embryonic morphogen, Nodal, is associated with channel-like structures in human malignant melanoma xenografts

Journal of Cutaneous Pathology

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 19-25

  McAllister, Josephine C ^a   Zhan, Qian ^b   Weishaupt, Carsten ^c   Hsu, Mei Yu ^b   Murphy, George F ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NODAL PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN NODAL; RAG2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONOBESE DIABETIC MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; STEM CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED NOD; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; NODAL PROTEIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 77949808547     PISSN: 03036987     EISSN: 16000560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2010.01503.x     Document Type: Review

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