Arginine vasopressin promoter regulation is mediated by a neuron- restrictive silencer element in small cell lung cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 5123-5127

  Coulson, Judy M ^a,c   Fiskerstrand, Carolyn E ^b   Woll, Penella J ^a   Quinn, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGIPRESSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; SILENCER GENE;

ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0032749571     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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