Small interfering RNAs directed against β-catenin inhibit the in vitro and in vivo growth of colon cancer cells

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1291-1300

  Verma, Udit N ^a   Surabhi, Rama M ^a   Schmaltieg, Aurelia ^a   Becerra, Carlos ^a   Gaynor, Richard B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; BETA CATENIN; RNA; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0037388638     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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