Let-7a microrna functions as a potential tumor suppressor in human laryngeal cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1189-1195

  Long, Xiao Bo ^a   Sun, Guang Bin ^b   Hu, Shuang ^a   Liang, Geng Tian ^b   Wang, Nan ^a   Zhang, Xin Hao ^a   Cao, Ping Ping ^a   Zhen, Hong Tao ^a   Cui, Yong Hua ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Gongli Hospital Pudong New Area   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; C MYC; Laryngeal cancer; Lethal 7a; MicroRNA; Proliferation; RAS

Indexed keywords

LETHAL 7A; MICRORNA; MYC PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER TISSUE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HEP 2 CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNX; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; RAS PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 70449436132     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or_00000554     Document Type: Article

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