Dihydrotestosterone as a selective cellular/nuclear localization vector for anti-gene peptide nucleic acid in prostatic carcinoma cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2258-2262

  Boffa, Lidia C ^a   Scarfi', Sonia ^b   Mariani, Maria Rita ^a   Damonte, Gianluca ^b   Allfrey, Vincent G ^c   Benatti, Umberto ^b   Morris, Patricia L ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TARGET CELL;

ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOPLASM; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; GENES, MYC; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034655249     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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