TRAF4, at the crossroad between morphogenesis and cancer

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 2734-2749

  Rousseau, Adrien ^a   Rio, Marie Christine ^a   Alpy, Fabien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Cancerogenesis; Cell polarity; Morphogenesis; Reactive oxygen species; Smurf; TRAF

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR 6;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG MALFORMATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

EID: 79959691670     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3022734     Document Type: Review

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