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Hedgehog signaling pathway: development of antagonists for cancer therapy.
Current oncology reports - 1 Mar 2008
Xie Jingwu
Abstract excerpt
The hedgehog pathway, initially discovered in Drosophila by two Nobel laureates, Dr. Eric Wieschaus and Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, is a major regulator for cell differentiation, tissue polarity, and cell proliferation. Studies from many laboratories--including ours--reveal activation of this pathway in most basal cell carcinomas and nearly one third of extracutaneous human cancers, including...
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