Mutant and wild-type Ras: Co-conspirators in cancer

Cancer Discovery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 24-27

  Hayes, Tikvah K ^a   Der, Channing J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERLOTINIB; K RAS PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAS PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84872854990     PISSN: 21598274     EISSN: 21598290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0521     Document Type: Article

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