Cancer Letters
Volume 230, Issue 1 , Pages 1-5 , 8 December 2005

Effects of active MEK1 expression in vivo

  • Florence A. Scholl

      Affiliations

    • VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    • Program in Epithelial Biology, Standford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Phillip A. Dumesic

      Affiliations

    • VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    • Program in Epithelial Biology, Standford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Paul A. Khavari

      Affiliations

    • VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    • Program in Epithelial Biology, Standford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Program in Epithelial Biology, 269 Campus Drive, Room 2150, Standford, CA 94305, USA. Tel.: +1 650 725 5266; fax: +1 650 723 8762.

Received 7 December 2004 ,Accepted 13 December 2004.

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PII: S0304-3835(04)00989-9

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.12.013

Cancer Letters
Volume 230, Issue 1 , Pages 1-5 , 8 December 2005

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