Effects of folate deficiency on gene expression in the apoptosis and cancer pathways in colon cancer cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 916-924

  Novakovic, Petar ^a   Stempak, Joanne M ^a,b   Sohn, Kyoung Jin ^a   Kim, Young In ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL CYCLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA REPAIR; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DEOXYURIDINE; DNA; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LEUCOVORIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 33646187201     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgi312     Document Type: Article

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