YAP is a candidate oncogene for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-398

  Muramatsu, Tomoki ^a   Imoto, Issei ^a,b   Matsui, Takeshi ^a   Kozaki, Ken Ichi ^a   Haruki, Shigeo ^a   Sudol, Marius ^c   Shimada, Yutaka ^d   Tsuda, Hitoshi ^a,e   Kawano, Tatsuyuki ^a   Inazawa, Johji ^a  

^a Tokyo Medical and Dental University ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c WEIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1A; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P21; SURVIVIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YES ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 79952304497     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: 14602180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgq254     Document Type: Article

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