Progesterone receptor b gene inactivation and CpG hypermethylation in human uterine endometrial cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 97-102

  Sasaki, Masahiro ^a   Dharia, Abhipsa ^a   Oh, Bong R ^b   Tanaka, Yuichiro ^a   Fujimoto, Sei Ichiro ^c   Dahiya, Rajvir ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERUS;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035139039     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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