Signalling to cancer cell invasion through PAK family kinases

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 849-864

  Whale, Andrew ^a   Hashim, Fariesha Nur ^b   Fram, Sally ^b   Jones, Gareth E ^a   Wells, Claire M ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actin; Cancer; Invasion; Migration; PAK; Review

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

P21 ACTIVATED KINASE;

ANIMAL; CANCER INVASION; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS; P21-ACTIVATED KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79955007489     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3724     Document Type: Article

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