Expression of the RET/PTC1 oncogene impairs the activity of TTF-1 and Pax-8 thyroid transcription factors

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-103

  De Vita, Qabriella ^a   Zannini, Mariastella ^a   Cirafici, Anna Maria ^a   Melillo, Rosa Marina ^a   Lauro, Roberte Di ^b   Fusco, Alfredo ^c   Santoro, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENES; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RATS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 2642671982     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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