Hedgehog signalling in colon cancer and stem cells

EMBO Molecular Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 300-302

  Gulino, Alberto ^a,b   Ferretti, Elisabetta ^a   De Smaele, Enrico ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Hedgehog signalling

Indexed keywords

CD133 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPAMINE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROTEIN PATCHED; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; ENTEROENDOCRINE CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; METASTASIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PANETH CELL; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL EXPANSION; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 77952911825     PISSN: 17574676     EISSN: 17574684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.200900042     Document Type: Short Survey

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