Methylation mediated silencing of TMS1 in breast cancer and its potential contribution to docetaxel cytotoxicity

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3207-3210

  Gordian, Edna ^a   Ramachandran, Kavitha ^a   Singal, Rakesh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; chemotherapy; DNA methylation; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; DOCETAXEL; RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DOSE SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFICACY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE TMS1;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TAXOIDS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 68549087020     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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