MUC1-mediated motility in breast cancer: a review highlighting the role of the MUC1/ICAM-1/Src signaling triad

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 393-403

  Haddon, Lacey ^a   Hugh, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; ICAM 1; Lipid rafts; Metastasis; MUC1; Src

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MUC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MUCIN 1; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BREAST TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCIN-1; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC-FAMILY KINASES;

EID: 84930895123     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: 15737276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10585-015-9711-8     Document Type: Review

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