ETS transcription factors: Possible targets for cancer therapy

Cancer Science

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 626-633

  Oikawa, Tsuneyuki ^a  

^a SASAKI INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DNA VACCINE; GELATINASE B; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IMATINIB; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; MATRILYSIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STROMELYSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 2; TRASTUZUMAB; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER THERAPY; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME INHIBITION; EWING SARCOMA; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIOMA CELL; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ETS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 4544268945     PISSN: 13479032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2004.tb03320.x     Document Type: Review

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