Winning WNT: Race to Wnt signaling inhibitors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5929-5930

  Watanabe, Kazuhide ^a   Dai, Xing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA CATENIN; WNT PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CYTOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 79955003400     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103102108     Document Type: Note

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