The important role of glycine N-methyltransferase in the carcinogenesis and progression of prostate cancer

Modern Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1272-1280

  Song, Yoo Hyun ^a   Shiota, Masaki ^a   Kuroiwa, Kentaro ^a   Naito, Seiji ^a   Oda, Yoshinao ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; glycine N methyltransferase; progression; prostate

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GLYCINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80052423473     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2011.76     Document Type: Article

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