Resting potential, oncogene-induced tumorigenesis, and metastasis: The bioelectric basis of cancer in vivo

Physical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Lobikin, Maria ^a   Chernet, Brook ^a   Lobo, Daniel ^a   Levin, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

4 NITROQUINOLINE 1 OXIDE; CARCINOGEN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MORPHOGENESIS; ONCOGENE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; BODY PATTERNING; CARCINOGENS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; ONCOGENES; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84871195861     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/9/6/065002     Document Type: Article

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