MicroRNA-21 induces resistance to the anti-tumour effect of interferon-α/5-fluorouracil in hepatocellular carcinoma cells

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1617-1626

  Tomimaru, Y ^a   Eguchi, H ^a   Nagano, H ^a   Wada, H ^a   Tomokuni, A ^a   Kobayashi, S ^a   Marubashi, S ^a   Takeda, Y ^a   Tanemura, M ^a   Umeshita, K ^b   Doki, Y ^a   Mori, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil (5 FU); hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); interferon a (IFN a); miR 21; phosphatase and tensin homologue (PTEN); programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; FLUOROURACIL; LIPOCORTIN 5; MICRORNA 21; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOMA CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RNA EXTRACTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIVISION; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERFERON-ALPHA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICRORNAS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 78149469070     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605958     Document Type: Article

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