Molecular pathways: Adiponectin and leptin signaling in cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1926-1932

  VanSaun, Michael N ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 1; ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 2; GLITAZONE DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE; JANUS KINASE 2; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; METFORMIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT LEPTIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALING 3;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MELANOMA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADIPONECTIN; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ADIPONECTIN; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84877090947     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-0930     Document Type: Review

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