Sphingolipids and expression regulation of genes in cancer

Progress in Lipid Research

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 104-114

  Patwardhan, Gauri A ^a,b   Liu, Yong Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; Ceramide; Drug resistance; Gene expression; Sphingosine 1 phosphate

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CASPASE 9; CERAMIDE; CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GLOBOTRIAOSYLCERAMIDE; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; HISTONE H3; INTEGRIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; MYC PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN P21; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ACETYLATION; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SPHINGOLIPIDS;

EID: 78650682926     PISSN: 01637827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2010.10.003     Document Type: Review

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