Potential clinical significance of ERβ ON promoter methylation in sporadic breast cancer

Medical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Božović, Ana ^a   Markićević, Milan ^b   Dimitrijević, Bogomir ^a   Ćupić, Snežana Jovanović ^a   Krajnović, Milena ^a   Lukić, Silvana ^b   Mandušić, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ONCOLOGY AND RADIOLOGY OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor alpha; Estrogen receptor beta; Metastases; Methylation; Progesterone receptor; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA1; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA, HUMAN; ISOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84879036442     PISSN: 13570560     EISSN: 1559131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12032-013-0642-4     Document Type: Article

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