The Wnt/β-catenin pathway regulates self-renewal of cancer stem-like cells in human gastric cancer

Molecular Medicine Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1191-1196

  Cai, Chen ^a   Zhu, Xiaohan ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CSCs; DKK 1; Gastric cancer; Lithium chloride; Wnt catenin

Indexed keywords

AXIN; AXIN 2; BETA CATENIN; CYCLIN D1; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; MYC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER STEM CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD44; AXIN PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84863263755     PISSN: 17912997     EISSN: 17913004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2012.802     Document Type: Article

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