Enhanced GBX2 expression stimulates growth of human prostate cancer cells via transcriptional up-regulation of the interleukin 6 gene

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 493-497

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033963825     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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