Correlation between growth control, neoplastic potential and endogenous connexin43 expression in HeLa cell lines: Implications for tumor progression

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-315

  King, Timothy J ^a,b   Fukushima, Laurie H ^a   Donlon, Timothy A ^c   Hieber, A David ^c   Shimabukuro, Kelly A ^a   Bertram, John S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; CONNEXIN 43; DNA; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL CLONING; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; AZACITIDINE; CELL DIVISION; CLONE CELLS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLASTS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033952366     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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