Hepatitis B x antigen up-regulates vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 in hepatocarcinogenesis

Hepatology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1390-1399

  Lian, Zhaorui ^a   Liu, Jie ^b   Wu, Mengchao ^c   Wang, Hong Yang ^c   Arbuthnot, Patrick ^d   Kew, Michael ^d   Feitelson, Mark A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B X ANTIGEN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGAR; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-3;

EID: 34250372946     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21610     Document Type: Article

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