Therapeutic effects of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 siRNA on human breast cancer in xenograft mice

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1854-1861

  Yang, Zeng ^a   Cai, Jian Hui ^a   Xie, Shao Jian ^a   Li, Gui Xin ^a   Song, Wei Qing ^a   Yan, Qing Hui ^a   Yan, Li ^b   Zhang, Feng ^a  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Nude mice; Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3; Small interference RNA; Targeted therapy

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER TISSUE; CELL ASSAY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; TUMOR WEIGHT; TUMOR XENOGRAFT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 79959502316     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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