Using transcriptomics to identify and validate novel biomarkers of human skeletal muscle cancer cachexia

Genome Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Stephens, Nathan A ^a   Gallagher, Iain J ^b   Rooyackers, Olav ^c   Skipworth, Richard J ^a   Tan, Ben H ^a   Marstrand, Troels ^d   Ross, James A ^a   Guttridge, Denis C ^e   Lundell, Lars ^c   Fearon, Kenneth C ^a   Timmons, James A ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II BETA; RNA; TIE 1 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CACHEXIA; CANCER CACHEXIA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE CANCER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 78449253911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm122     Document Type: Article

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