Wnt signaling activation and WIF-1 silencing in nasopharyngeal cancer cell lines

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 635-640

  Lin, Yu Ching ^a,b,c   You, Liang ^a   Xu, Zhidong ^a   He, Biao ^a   Mikami, Iwao ^a   Thung, Elaine ^a   Chou, Josephine ^a   Kuchenbecker, Kristopher ^a   Kim, Jae ^a   Raz, Dan ^a   Yang, Cheng Ta ^b   Chen, Jan Kan ^c   Jablons, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Promoter hypermethylation; Transfection; Wnt inhibitory factor 1; Wnt signaling

Indexed keywords

WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG CANCER; METHYLATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AZACITIDINE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 31444455766     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.12.220     Document Type: Article

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