Down-regulation of SNAIL suppresses MIN mouse tumorigenesis: Modulation of apoptosis, proliferation, and fractal dimension

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1159-1165

  Roy, Hemant K ^a   Iversen, Patrick ^b   Hart, John ^c   Liu, Yang ^d   Koetsier, Jennifer L ^a   Kim, Young ^d   Kunte, Dhanajay P ^a   Madugula, Madhavi ^a   Backman, Vadim ^d   Wali, Ramesh K ^a  

^a Evanston NW Healthcare Res Inst ^*  (United States)

^b AVI BIOPHARMA INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMER; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CADHERINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MORPHOLINES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 4644290527     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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