Interfering with stem cell-specific gatekeeper functions controls tumour initiation and malignant progression of skin tumours

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Petersson, Monika ^a,b   Reuter, Karen ^a   Brylka, Heike ^a   Kraus, Andreas ^a   Schettina, Peter ^a   Niemann, Catherin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; PROTEIN P53; 7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; CARCINOGEN; LEF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LEF1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TP53 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; HAIR; HETEROGENEITY; LESION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTATION; SKIN DISORDER; TUMOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL LOSS; CELL PLASTICITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; HAIR FOLLICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEBACEOUS CELL; SKIN TUMOR; STEM CELL; STEM CELL SELF-RENEWAL; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDERMIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SEBACEOUS GLAND TUMOR; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PYRONIA TITHONUS;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA DAMAGE; EPIDERMIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; LYMPHOID ENHANCER-BINDING FACTOR 1; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PHENOTYPE; SEBACEOUS GLAND NEOPLASMS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84944135117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6874     Document Type: Article

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