Notch signaling as a therapeutic target for breast cancer treatment?

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Han, Jianxun ^a   Hendzel, Michael J ^a   Allalunis Turner, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; NOTCH4 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN JAGGED 1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J RECOMBINATION SIGNAL SEQUENCE BINDING PROTEIN; RBPJ PROTEIN, MOUSE;

BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER THERAPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECTOPIC EXPRESSION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR CELL LINE; UDDER;

ANIMALS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J RECOMBINATION SIGNAL SEQUENCE-BINDING PROTEIN; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80054742750     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/bcr2875     Document Type: Review

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