The study of HOX gene function in hematopoietic, breast and lung carcinogenesis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3 A, 2003, Pages 2101-2110

  Maroulakou, Ioanna G ^a,b   Spyropoulos, Demetri D ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Development; Embryogenesis; Gene expression; Hematopoietic; Homeobox; HOX; Lung; Mammary; Organogenesis; Regulation; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL TYPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HOX GENE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIESIS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 0042306256     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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