Understanding the biology of bone sarcoma from early initiating events through late events in metastasis and disease progression

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 3 SEP, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Limin ^a   McManus, Madonna M ^a   Hughes, Dennis P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoikis resistance; Cancer signaling; Ewing sarcoma; Intravasation; Metastasis; Neovascularization; Osteosarcoma; Tumor dormancy

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 4; EZRIN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; HLA ANTIGEN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLASMIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN MDM2; PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNINDEXED DRUG; UROKINASE; UVOMORULIN; VASCULOTROPIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANOIKIS; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE COURSE; DORMANCY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EWING SARCOMA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE SRC; OSTEOSARCOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RESISTANCE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84891128821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2013.00230     Document Type: Review

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