Epigenetic silencing of microRNA-373 plays an important role in regulating cell proliferation in colon cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1329-1335

  Tanaka, Takeshi ^a   Arai, Makoto ^a   Wu, Shuang ^a   Kanda, Tatsuo ^a   Miyauchi, Hideaki ^a   Imazeki, Fumio ^a   Matsubara, Hisahiro ^a   Yokosuka, Osamu ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aberrant methylation; Colon cancer; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 373; MICRORNA 520G; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; CYTOSTASIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METHYLATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE RAB22A; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE SILENCING; HT29 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 80053165340     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2011.1401     Document Type: Article

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