Key role of Krüppel-like factor proteins in pancreatic cancer and other gastrointestinal neoplasias

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 505-511

  Buttar, Navtej S ^a   Fernandez Zapico, Martin E ^a   Urrutia, Raul ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Kr ppel like factor 11; Kr ppel like factors; Pancreatic cancer; Tumor suppressor; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; CATALASE; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; DIBENZO[A,L]PYRENE; INSULIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN P53; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIN3A; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR PROMOTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN A; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA DAMAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM CANCER; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PRECANCER AND CANCER-IN-SITU; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TATA BOX; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ADENOMA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33746913059     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mog.0000239864.73962.db     Document Type: Review

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