Inhibition of endothelial cell proliferation by targeting Rac1 GTPase with small interference RNA in tumor cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 320, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1309-1315

  Xue, Yan ^a   Bi, Feng ^a   Zhang, Xueyong ^a   Pan, Yanglin ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Zheng, Yi ^b   Fan, Daiming ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Endothelial cell; Rac1; siRNA

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN P53; RAC1 PROTEIN; RNA; VASCULOTROPIN; VON HIPPEL LINDAU PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA VECTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL; UPREGULATION;

CELL DIVISION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3142743139     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.06.088     Document Type: Article

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