A zebrafish transgenic model of Ewing's sarcoma reveals conserved mediators of EWS-FLI1 tumorigenesis

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-106

  Leacock, Stefanie W ^a,b   Basse, Audrey N ^a,b   Chandler, Garvin L ^a,b   Kirk, Anne M ^a,b   Rakheja, Dinesh ^a   Amatruda, James F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; RNA BINDING PROTEIN EWS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EWING SARCOMA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; RNA-BINDING PROTEIN EWS; SARCOMA, EWING; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84855893656     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.007401     Document Type: Article

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