RhoA can lead the way in tumor cell invasion and metastasis

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1915-1926

  Struckhoff, Amanda P ^a   Rana, Manish K ^a   Worthylake, Rebecca A ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Formin; Metastasis; Review; Rho GTPase; RhoA; RhoC; ROCK

Indexed keywords

DIAPH1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MICRORNA; MIRN10 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN31 MICRORNA, HUMAN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHOC PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER INVASION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN;

EID: 79955036682     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3830     Document Type: Article

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