Suppression of metallothionein-I/II expression and its probable molecular mechanisms

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2002, Pages 827-830

  Jacob, Samson T ^a   Majumder, Sarmila ^a   Ghoshal, Kalpana ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 azacytidine; DNA methylation; Hepatoma; Lymphosarcoma; Metallothionein; MTF 1; NFI; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; AZACITIDINE; CADMIUM; COPPER; CYTOSINE; DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEAVY METAL; ISOPROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR I; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOSARCOMA; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036803997     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110s5827     Document Type: Article

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