NRF2 and cancer: The Good, the bad and the importance of context

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 564-571

  Sporn, Michael B ^a   Liby, Karen T ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CURCUMIN; FUMARIC ACID; KELCH LIKE ECH ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; OLTIPRAZ; PHENETHYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; RESVERATROL; SULPHORAPHANE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; TRITERPENOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; STOMACH CANCER;

ANIMALS; ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NF-E2-RELATED FACTOR 2; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84864348569     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3278     Document Type: Review

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