Inhibition of gap junction transfer sensitizes thyroid cancer cells to anoikis

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 613-626

  Jensen, Kirk ^a   Patel, Aneeta ^a   Klubo Gwiezdzinska, Joanna ^b   Bauer, Andrew ^a   Vasko, Vasyl ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ANOIKIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPH VESSEL; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIZATION; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL;

ANOIKIS; CARBENOXOLONE; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054915955     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ERC-10-0289     Document Type: Article

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