Epigenetics of estrogen receptor signaling: Role in hormonal cancer progression and therapy

Cancers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1691-1707

  Mann, Monica ^a   Cortez, Valerie ^a   Vadlamudi, Ratna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Epigenetics; Estrogen receptor; Histone modifications; Hormonal cancers

Indexed keywords

3 DEAZANEPLANOCIN A; 5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; AURORA B KINASE; DEPSIPEPTIDE; ENTINOSTAT; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; LETROZOLE; METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MIXED LINEAGE KINASE; PANOBINOSTAT; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRICHOSTATIN A; VORINOSTAT; ZEBULARINE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 79959745269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers3021691     Document Type: Review

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