Breast cancer growth and metastasis: Interplay between cancer stem cells, embryonic signaling pathways and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Takebe, Naoko ^a   Warren, Ronald Q ^b   Ivy, S Percy ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PSI International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BMI1 PROTEIN; CD24 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HERMES ANTIGEN; MICRORNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; METASTASIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 80052708567     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr2876     Document Type: Review

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