Inactivation of phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase-2 in aflatoxin-induced liver cancer and partial reversion of the neoplastic phenotype by PEMT transfection of hepatoma cells

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 362-367

  Tessitore, Luciana ^a,c   Sesca, Eliana ^a   Vance, Dennis E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANCHORAGE INDEPENDENT GROWTH; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR VOLUME; ANIMAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AFLATOXINS; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; LIVER NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0034183275     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(20000501)86:3<362::aid-ijc10>3.0.co;2-a     Document Type: Article

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