Autophagy in endocrine tumors

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages R205-R218

  Weckman, Andrea ^a   Rotondo, Fabio ^a   Di Ieva, Antonio ^a   Syro, Luis V ^b   Butz, Henriett ^a   Cusimano, Michael D ^a   Kovacs, Kalman ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL PABLO TOBÓN URIBE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Autophagy modulation; Endocrine disease; Neoplasia; Therapeutic poten

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CANCER; AUTOPHAGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOCRINE GLAND; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS ISLET; PARATHYROID CARCINOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; REVIEW; TESTIS CANCER; THERAPY EFFECT; THYROID CANCER; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; ENDOCRINE GLAND NEOPLASMS; HUMANS;

EID: 84940102317     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ERC-15-0042     Document Type: Review

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