Targeting Wnt signaling in colon cancer stem cells

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 647-653

  Melo, Felipe De Sousa E ^a   Vermeulen, Louis ^a   Richel, Dick ^a   Medema, Jan Paul ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APC PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; BETA TRANSDUCIN REPEAT CONTAINING PROTEIN; CASEIN KINASE I; CELECOXIB; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF; ICG 001; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; MYC PROTEIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; FAMILIAL ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 79951831708     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-10-1204     Document Type: Review

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