Microenvironment changes (in pH) affect VEGF alternative splicing

Cancer Microenvironment

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-139

  Elias, Ana Paula ^a   Dias, Sergio ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DE ONCOLOGIA DE LISBOA FRANCISCO GENTIL   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Endometrial carcinoma; Microenvironment; SR proteins; VEGF

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HORMONE; ISOPROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOXIA; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 58649107348     PISSN: 18752292     EISSN: 18752284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12307-008-0013-4     Document Type: Article

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