Secreted frizzled-related protein 4 is silenced by hypermethylation and induces apoptosis in β-catenin - Deficient human mesothelioma cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 743-748

  He, Biao ^a   Lee, Amie Y ^a   Dadfarmay, Sina ^a   You, Liang ^a   Xu, Zhidong ^a   Reguart, Noemi ^a,b   Mazieres, Julien ^a,c   Mikami, Iwao ^a   McCormick, Frank ^a   Jablons, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CLAUDIUS REGAUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA CATENIN; FRIZZLED PROTEIN; FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 4; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESOTHELIOMA; MESOTHELIUM CELL; METHYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; APOPTOSIS; BETA CATENIN; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MESOTHELIOMA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 13444267284     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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