The clinical and functional significance of c-Met in breast cancer: A review

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ho Yen, Colan M ^a   Jones, J Louise ^b   Kermorgant, Stephanie ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR INVASION; ANIMAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84926381726     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-015-0547-6     Document Type: Review

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