A natural antisense transcript, BOKAS, regulates the pro-apoptotic activity of human Bok

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1135-1138

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Gao, Shuping ^a,b   de Geyter, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BOKAS; hBok; Natural antisense transcripts; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BOK; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TESTIS;

APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; CELL SURVIVAL; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 67649443785     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: 17912423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo_00000241     Document Type: Article

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