The glucocorticoid receptor mediates a survival signal in human mammary epithelial cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 867-872

  Moran, Timothy J ^a   Gray, Stacy ^a   Mikosz, Christina A ^a   Conzen, Suzanne D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ONCOGENE C MYC; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BREAST; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIFEPRISTONE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034652613     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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