Defining the origins of Ras/p53-mediated squamous cell carcinoma

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

Volumn 108, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 7425-7430

  White, Andrew C ^a   Tran, Kathy ^a   Khuu, Joan ^a   Dang, Christine ^a   Cui, Yongyan ^a   Binder, Scott W ^b   Lowry, William E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidermal stem cells; Mouse models of cancer; Tumor initiating cells

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HYPERPLASIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HAIR FOLLICLE; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PHENOTYPE; RAS PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 79956317166     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012670108     Document Type: Article

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