MicroRNAs: Critical regulators of epithelial to mesenchymal (EMT) and mesenchymal to epithelial transition (MET) in cancer progression

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-12

  Bullock, Marc D ^a   Sayan, Abdulkadir E ^a   Packham, Graham K ^a   Mirnezami, Alex H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer progression; EMT; MET; MicroRNA; Stemness

Indexed keywords

CD24 ANTIGEN; CD44V ANTIGEN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 10B; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 192; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 200C; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 29A; MICRORNA 31; MICRORNA 9; PROTEIN P53; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA REPAIR; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CANCER INVASION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84861802693     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: 1768322X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boc.201100115     Document Type: Review

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