Promoter hypermethylation patterns of p16, O6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, and death-associated protein kinase in tumors and saliva of head and neck cancer patients

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 939-942

  Rosas, Siane Lopes Bittencourt ^a,b   Koch, Wayne ^a   Da Costa Carvalho, Maria Da Gloria ^b   Wu, Li ^a   Califano, Joseph ^a   Westra, William ^a   Jen, Jin ^a   Sidransky, David ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN KINASE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P16; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPAIR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENES, P16; GENETIC MARKERS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SALIVA; SMOKING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035116695     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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