Overexpression of MUC15 activates extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and promotes the oncogenic potential of human colon cancer cells

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1452-1458

  Huang, John ^a,b   Che, Mei Ieng ^b   Huang, Yu Ting ^b   Shyu, Ming Kwang ^a   Huang, Yu Ming ^b   Wu, Yao Ming ^a   Lin, Wei Chou ^a   Huang, Pei Hsin ^a   Liang, Jin Tung ^a   Lee, Po Huang ^a   Huang, Min Chuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MUCIN; MUCIN 15; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MUC15 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLON CANCER; COLONY FORMING CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UPREGULATION; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANCER INVASION; CELL MOTION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MUCINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 69449092545     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgp137     Document Type: Article

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