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Focal adhesion kinase and p53 signal transduction pathways in cancer.
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) - 1 Jun 2010
Golubovskaya Vita M, Cance William
Abstract excerpt
Human cancer is characterized by a process of tumor cell motility, invasion, and metastasis. One of the critical tyrosine kinases that is linked to these processes of tumor invasion and survival is the Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK). Our laboratory was the first to isolate FAK from human tumors, and we had demonstrated that FAK mRNA was up-regulated in invasive and metastatic human breast and colon cancer samples....
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