SIX1 promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition in colorectal cancer through ZEB1 activation

Oncogene

Volumn 31, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 4923-4934

  Ono, H ^a   Imoto, I ^a,b   Kozaki, K ^a   Tsuda, H ^c   Matsui, T ^a   Kurasawa, Y ^a   Muramatsu, T ^a   Sugihara, K ^a   Inazawa, J ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CDH1; colorectal cancer; epithelial mesenchymal transition; miR 200 family; SIX1; ZEB1

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA 200; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZEB1;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CADHERINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84870055922     PISSN: 09509232     EISSN: 14765594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/onc.2011.646     Document Type: Article

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