Transcriptional activation of the human gastrin-releasing peptide receptor gene in gastrointestinal and prostatic epithelial cancer cells

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 75-82

  Qu, Xiangping ^a   Xiao, Dongmei ^a   Weber, H Christian ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bombesin; Cancer; Gene regulation; GRP R; Regulatory peptide

Indexed keywords

GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; LIGAND; LUCIFERASE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BOMBESIN RECEPTOR; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

CANCER CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTANT; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; TRANSACTIVATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AMPHIBIA; MAMMALIA;

CARCINOMA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, BOMBESIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 3042820502     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/JMN:22:1-2:75     Document Type: Conference Paper

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