Epigenetic regulation of prostate cancer

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-169

  Chin, Suyin P ^a   Dickinson, Joanne L ^a   Holloway, Adele F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone acetylation; MicroRNA; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; AZACITIDINE; BICALUTAMIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DOCETAXEL; ENTINOSTAT; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GENISTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HERMES ANTIGEN; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HYDRALAZINE; LYSINE SPECIFIC DEMETHYLASE 1; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; ONCOPROTEIN; PANOBINOSTAT; PROCAINAMIDE; ROMIDEPSIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2; TRICHOSTATIN A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CPG ISLAND; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; E CADHERIN GENE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GLUTATHIONE S TRANSFERASE GENE; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84856277683     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13148-011-0041-7     Document Type: Review

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