Androgen-independent growth in LNCaP cell lines and steroid uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase expression

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-13

  Kanaya, Jiro ^a   Takashima, Mitsuhiro ^a   Koh, Eitetsu ^a   Namiki, Mikio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antisense cDNA; Glucuronidation; LNCaP; PcDNA3.1; UGT2B15

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLUCURONIDATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANDROGENS; CELL DIVISION; DNA, ANTISENSE; GLUCURONIC ACID; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037359143     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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