Lack of apoptotic protease activating factor-1 expression and resistance to hypoxia-induced apoptosis in cervical cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1149-1153

  Leo, Cornelia ^a   Horn, Lars Christian ^a   Rauscher, Cora ^a   Hentschel, Bettina ^a   Richter, Christine E ^a   Schütz, Alexander ^a   Leo, Chandra Paul ^a   Höckel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NICK END LABELING; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOTIC PROTEASE-ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CELL HYPOXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947261638     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-2371     Document Type: Article

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