Slug expression during melanoma progression

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2479-2489

  Shirley, Stephanie H ^a   Greene, Victoria R ^b   Duncan, Lyn M ^d   Torres Cabala, Carlos A ^c   Grimm, Elizabeth A ^b   Kusewitt, Donna F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL INVASION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR GROWTH;

CADHERINS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84861615174     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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