Loss of FOXA1/2 is essential for the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2115-2125

  Song, Yan ^a   Washington, M Kay ^b   Crawford, Howard C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME CELL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CADHERINS; DNA METHYLATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE SILENCING; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESODERM; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 77950293595     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2979     Document Type: Article

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