Aberrant signaling pathways in Glioma

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 3242-3278

  Nakada, Mitsutoshi ^a   Kita, Daisuke ^a   Watanabe, Takuya ^a   Hayashi, Yutaka ^a   Teng, Lei ^a,b   Pyko, Ilya V ^a   Hamada, Jun Ichiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Glioblastoma; Invasion; Molecular target; Proliferation; Signaling

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ATM PROTEIN; BEVACIZUMAB; CHECKPOINT KINASE 2; CILENGITIDE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; GROWTH FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTEGRIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROFIBROMIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LIGAND BINDING; METASTASIS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 80053187240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3033242     Document Type: Review

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