Overexpression and activation of Akt2 protein in oral squamous cell carcinoma

Oral Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Iamaroon, Anak ^a   Krisanaprakornkit, Suttichai ^a  

^a Faculty of Dentistry   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Akt; Human oral keratinocytes; Isoforms; Oral cancer; Phosphorylation; Post transcriptional modification; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROETIN AKT1; PROETIN AKT3; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE B BETA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349101615     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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