Protease-Activated Receptors and other G-Protein-Coupled Receptors: the Melanoma Connection
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Protease-Activated Receptors and other G-Protein-Coupled Receptors: the Melanoma Connection
The vast array of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play crucial roles in both physiological and pathological processes, including vision, coagulation, inflammation, autophagy, and cell proliferation. GPCRs also affect processes that augment cell proliferation and metastases in many cancers including melanoma. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, yet limited therapeutic modalities a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Genetics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1664-8021
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00112