TM9 and cannibalism: How to learn more about cancer by studying amoebae and invertebrates

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-5

  Fais, Stefano ^a   Fauvarque, Marie Odile ^b,c  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CD36 ANTIGEN; EZRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN; TM9SF4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BLOOD CELL; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; DROSOPHILA; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENTOSIS; INTERNALIZATION; INVERTEBRATE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CYTOPHAGOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855571375     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: 1471499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2011.09.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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