Stem cells and their implications for colorectal cancer

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 90-100

  Zeki, Sebastian S ^a   Graham, Trevor A ^b   Wright, Nicholas A ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED LEUKOCYTE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; APC PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BMI1 PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CD133 ANTIGEN; CRE RECOMBINASE; CYTOKERATIN 20; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR B1; EPHRIN RECEPTOR B2; EPHRIN RECEPTOR B3; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 49; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HERMES ANTIGEN; OLFACTOMEDIN 4; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE DCLK1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

CANCER STEM CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CRYPT CELL; DNA METHYLATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE CRYPT; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS;

EID: 79751487222     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2010.211     Document Type: Review

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