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Current Pharmaceutical Design

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1381-6128
ISSN (Online): 1873-4286

Novel Insights Into c-Src

Author(s): O. Alper and E. T. Bowden

Volume 11, Issue 9, 2005

Page: [1119 - 1130] Pages: 12

DOI: 10.2174/1381612053507576

Price: $65

Abstract

Since identifying a transmissible agent responsible for tumorigenesis in chickens, the v-Src oncogene, significant progress has been made in determining the functions of its cellular homologue. c-Src is the product of the SRC gene and has been found both over-expressed and highly activated in a number of human cancers. In fact the relationship between c-Src activation and cancer progression is significant. Furthermore c-Src may play a role in the acquisition of the invasive and metastatic phenotype. In this review we will summarize some of the latest evidence for the role of c-Src in tumorigenesis and particularly in human tumor progression. In this review, specifically, we will address growth signals, adhesion, migration, invasion, angiogenesis and functional genomics.

Keywords: c-src, v-src, tumorigenesis, angiogenesis, genomics


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