Galectins: their network and roles in immunity/tumor growth control

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 239-256

  Kaltner, Herbert ^a   Toegel, Stefan ^b   Caballero, Gabriel García ^a   Manning, Joachim C ^a   Ledeen, Robert W ^c   Gabius, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Apoptosis; Galectin; Glycosyltransferase; Lectin; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN;

CANCER CONTROL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH REGULATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

GALECTINS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85007189819     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: 1432119X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-016-1522-8     Document Type: Review

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