Interleukin 7/interleukin 7 receptor induce c-Fos/c-Jun-dependent vascular endothelial growth factor-D up-regulation: A mechanism of lymphangiogenesis in lung cancer

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 866-873

  Ming, Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Qingfu ^a   Qiu, Xueshan ^a   Wang, Enhua ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NORTHERN THEATER COMMAND   (China)

Author keywords

Interleukin 7; Lung neoplasms; Lymphangiogenesis; Vascular endothelial growth factor D

Indexed keywords

HETERODIMER; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; VASCULOTROPIN D;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SURVIVAL TIME; UPREGULATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR D;

EID: 61349123540     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.12.006     Document Type: Article

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