Targeting RTK signaling pathways in cancer

Cancers

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1758-1784

  Regad, Tarik ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AKT; Cancer; MAP kinase; PI3K; RTK; Small molecule inhibitors

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 14; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

CARCINOGENESIS; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84940979092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers7030860     Document Type: Review

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