Inactivation of SLIT2-ROBO1/2 pathway in premalignant lesions of uterine cervix: Clinical and prognostic significances

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mitra, Sraboni ^a,d   Mazumder Indra, Dipanjana ^a   Mondal, Ranajit K ^a   Basu, Partha S ^a   Roy, Anup ^b   Roychoudhury, Susanta ^c   Panda, Chinmay K ^a  

^a CHITTARANJAN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NORTH BENGAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ROBO1 PROTEIN; ROBO2 PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT RECEPTOR; SLIT2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPARA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROMOTER REGION; ROBO1 GENE; ROBO2 GENE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SLIT2 GENE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA IN SITU;

AZACITIDINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84862162246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038342     Document Type: Article

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