Trop2 and its overexpression in cancers: Regulation and clinical/therapeutic implications

Genes and Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 84-105

  Shvartsur, Anna ^a   Bonavida, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Prognosis; Resistance; Signaling; Trop2

Indexed keywords

AUTOIMMUNE REGULATOR PROTEIN; CLAUDIN 1; CLAUDIN 7; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIN D1; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; MILATUZUMAB; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TROP2; RANPIRNASE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA10; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WT1 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA; KIDNEY CANCER; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LUNG CANCER; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 84949560187     PISSN: 19476019     EISSN: 19476027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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