Evolving Lessons on the Complex Role of AMPK in Normal Physiology and Cancer

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 192-206

  Dasgupta, Biplab ^a   Chhipa, Rishi Raj ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPK; cancer; LKB1; metformin; mTOR; oncogenic stress

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE KINASE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE;

CANCER RESEARCH; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LIPOGENESIS; MITOCHONDRION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84958774989     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: 18733735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2015.11.007     Document Type: Review

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