Methylation of the Calcium Channel-Related Gene, CACNA2D3, Is Frequent and a Poor Prognostic Factor in Gastric Cancer

Gastroenterology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Wanajo, Aira ^a   Sasaki, Akane ^a   Nagasaki, Hiromi ^a   Shimada, Shu ^a   Otsubo, Takeshi ^a   Owaki, Syuichi ^a   Shimizu, Yasufumi ^a   Eishi, Yoshinobu ^a   Kojima, Kazuyuki ^a   Nakajima, Yasuaki ^b   Kawano, Tatsuyuki ^b   Yuasa, Yasuhito ^a   Akiyama, Yoshimitsu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P27;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CACNA2D1 GENE; CACNA2D2 GENE; CACNA2D3 GENE; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METHYLATION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 48549107002     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.05.041     Document Type: Article

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