The role of Snail in EMT and tumorigenesis

Current Cancer Drug Targets

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 963-972

  Wang, Yifan ^a,b   Shi, Jian ^a   Chai, Kequn ^b   Ying, Xuhua ^b   Zhou, Binhua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Center for Experimental Animals   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; EMT; Metastasis; Signaling pathway; Snail

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; BMI1 PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COP9 SIGNALOSOME; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GELATINASE A; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; HERMES ANTIGEN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; JAGGED1; NOTCH RECEPTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE BINDING PROTEIN; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; RAS PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZEB1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNINDEXED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UBIQUITINATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

CARCINOGENESIS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84890852964     PISSN: 15680096     EISSN: 18735576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/15680096113136660102     Document Type: Article

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