Reduced expression of Snail decreases breast cancer cell motility by downregulating the expression and inhibiting the activity of RhoA GTPase

Oncology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 339-346

  Zhang, Ali ^a,b   Wang, Quansheng ^a   Han, Zhiqiang ^a   Hu, Wei ^c   Xi, Ling ^a   Gao, Qinlei ^a   Wang, Shixuan ^a   Zhou, Jianfeng ^a   Xu, Gang ^a   Meng, Li ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Ma, Ding ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Metastasis; RhoA GTPase; Snail

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; GELATINASE A; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR GROWTH; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84879477550     PISSN: 17921074     EISSN: 17921082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ol.2013.1385     Document Type: Article

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