Compartmentalized Epidermal Activation of β-Catenin Differentially Affects Lineage Reprogramming and Underlies Tumor Heterogeneity

Cell Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 269-281

  Kretzschmar, Kai ^a,b,d   Weber, Christine ^a,b   Driskell, Ryan R ^a   Calonje, Eduardo ^c   Watt, Fiona M ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; HERMES ANTIGEN; PROTEIN LGR1; PROTEIN LGR5; PROTEIN LGR6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROMA; EPIDERMAL STEM CELL; EPIDERMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HAIR FOLLICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PILOMATRIXOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; SEBACEOUS GLAND; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SKIN TUMOR; STROMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR HETEROGENEITY; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MICE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84955415508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.12.041     Document Type: Article

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