Expression and function of HOXA genes in normal and neoplastic ovarian epithelial cells

Differentiation

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 162-171

  Ota, Takayo ^a   Klausen, Christian ^a   Clara Salamanca, M ^a   Woo, Henry L ^a   Leung, Peter C K ^a   Auersperg, Nelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

HOX; HOXA4; Migration; Ovarian cancer; Ovarian surface epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HOX A4 PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; OVARY CANCER; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 60549107302     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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