A potential role of heat shock proteins and nicotinamide N-methyl transferase in predicting response to radiation in bladder cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 454-460

  Kassem, Heba Sh ^a   Sangar, Vijay ^a,c   Cowan, Richard ^b   Clarke, Noel ^b,c   Margison, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; CDNA array; Radiation

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; NICOTINAMIDE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; NICOTINAMIDE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037057530     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.10631     Document Type: Article

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