Enhanced radiation-mediated cell killing of human cervical cancer cells by small interference RNA silencing of ataxia telangiectasia-mutated protein

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1620-1630

  Li, W ^a   Jian, W ^a   Xiaoping, X ^b   Yingfeng, L ^b   Tao, X ^a   Xiaoyan, X ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ataxia telangiectasia; ATM; Cervical carcinoma; pSuppressorNeo; Radiotherapy; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL KILLING; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIATION, IONIZING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745964205     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00636.x     Document Type: Article

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