Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 epigenetically silences multiple tumor suppressor microRNAs to promote liver cancer metastasis

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 622-631

  Au, Sandy Leung Kuen ^a   Wong, Carmen Chak Lui ^a   Lee, Joyce Man Fong ^a   Fan, Dorothy Ngo Yin ^a   Tsang, Felice Hoching ^a   Ng, Irene Oi Lin ^a   Wong, Chun Ming ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 101; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 200B; MICRORNA 31; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EZH2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL MOTILITY; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84864344679     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25679     Document Type: Article

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