The cadherin switch in melanoma instigated by HGF is mediated through epithelial-mesenchymal transition regulators

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 382-385

  Koefinger, Petra ^a   Wels, Christian ^a   Joshi, Shripad ^a   Damm, Sabine ^a   Steinbauer, Elisabeth ^a   Beham Schmid, Christine ^a   Frank, Sasa ^a   Bergler, Helmut ^b   Schaider, Helmut ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; CADHERIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 INHIBITOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; UVOMORULIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROBLAST; HELIX (SNAIL); IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; LETTER; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRITONIA SEA SLUG; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 79952581666     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2010.00807.x     Document Type: Letter

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