α-catulin marks the invasion front of squamous cell carcinoma and is important for tumor cell metastasis

Molecular Cancer Research

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 892-903

  Cao, Christine ^a   Chen, Yibu ^b   Masood, Rizwan ^b   Sinha, Uttam K ^b   Kobielak, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATULIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METASTASIS; MOUSE; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

A KINASE ANCHOR PROTEINS; ALPHA CATENIN; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 84864006288     PISSN: 15417786     EISSN: 15573125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-12-0169     Document Type: Article

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