Activation of the Sonic Hedgehog pathway in thyroid neoplasms and its potential role in tumor cell proliferation

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-179

  Xu, Xiulong ^a   Ding, Helen ^a   Rao, Geetha ^a   Arora, Shalini ^a   Saclarides, Constantine P ^a   Esparaz, Joseph ^a   Gattuso, Paolo ^a   Solorzano, Carmen C ^a,b   Prinz, Richard A ^a,c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; B RAF KINASE; BROXURIDINE; CYCLOPAMINE; MICRORNA; PROTEIN PATCHED; SMOOTHENED PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR THYROID ADENOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABELING INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOLECULE; ONCOGENE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADENOMA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, NEOPLASM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERATRUM ALKALOIDS;

EID: 84860899307     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ERC-11-0305     Document Type: Article

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