Wnt/β-catenin signaling in normal and cancer stem cells

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 2050-2079

  Valkenburg, Kenneth C ^a   Graveel, Carrie R ^a   Zylstra Diegel, Cassandra R ^a   Zhong, Zhendong ^a   Williams, Bart O ^a  

^a VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

catenin; Cancer stem cells; Colon; Mammary; Prostate; Stem cells; Therapeutics; Wnt

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AXIN; BETA CATENIN; DACT3 PROTEIN; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTEIN ROR2; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; WNT PROTEIN; WNT1 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; WNT1 PROTEIN; WNT2 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; WNT2 PROTEIN; WNT3A PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APC GENE; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FAMILIAL ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTESTINAL STEM CELL; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; INTESTINE VILLUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAMMARY STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

EID: 79959686754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3022050     Document Type: Review

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