Down-regulation of homeobox gene GBX2 expression inhibits human prostate cancer clonogenic ability and tumorigenicity

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1391-1394

  Gao, Allen C ^a   Lou, Wei ^a   Isaacs, John T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENICITY; CLONOGENESIS; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032053817     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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