Pathways of proliferation and antiapoptosis driven in breast cancer stem cells by stem cell protein Piwil2

Cancer Research

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4569-4579

  Lee, Jae Ho ^a   Jung, Cornelia ^c   Javadian Elyaderani, Parisa ^a   Schweyer, Stefan ^c   Schütte, Dorothea ^c   Shoukier, Moneef ^c   Karimi Busheri, Feridoun ^d,e   Weinfeld, Michael ^d   Rasouli Nia, Aghdass ^d   Hengstler, Jan G ^f   Mantilla, Alejandra ^b   Soleimanpour Lichaei, Hamid Reza ^a   Engel, Wolfgang ^c   Robson, Craig N ^b   Nayernia, Karim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e NovaRx Corporation   (United States)

^f LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIN D1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN PIWIL2; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 77953172448     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2670     Document Type: Article

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