Since its discovery as a protein associated with the cytoplasmic region of E-cadherin, -catenin has been shown to perform two apparently unrelated functions: it has a crucial role in cell-cell adhesion in addition to a signaling role as a component of the Wnt/wg pathway. Wnt/wg signaling results in
Cytoplasmic β-catenin in esophageal cancers
✍ Scribed by Yutaka Kimura; Hitoshi Shiozaki; Yuichiro Doki; Makoto Yamamoto; Takehiro Utsunomiya; Kenshu Kawanishi; Nariaki Fukuchi; Masatoshi Inoue; Toshimasa Tsujinaka; Morito Monden
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Volume
- 84
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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