The role of the WWOX gene in leukemia and its mechanisms of action

Oncology Reports

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2154-2162

  Cui, Zhaolei ^a   Lin, Donghong ^a   Cheng, Feng ^a   Luo, Lingqing ^a   Kong, Lingying ^a   Xu, Jianping ^a   Hu, Jianda ^a   Lan, Fenghua ^a  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Leukemia; Mechanism; Mitochondria; Restoration; WW domain containing oxidoreductase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WW DOMAIN CONTAINING OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; LYMPHOMA; MITOCHONDRION; MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; MYELOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WWOX GENE;

APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOCHROMES C; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; K562 CELLS; LEUKEMIA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84876223729     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2013.2361     Document Type: Article

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