NDRG3 and NDRG4, two novel tumor-related genes

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 681-684

  Yang, Xinxin ^a   An, Liangxiang ^b   Li, Xiaoyu ^a  

^a JINING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF RIZHAO   (China)

Author keywords

Cancer; Myc; NDRG3; NDRG4

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REGULATION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; NDRG1 GENE; NDRG2 GENE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYB; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CANCER; MYC; NDRG3; NDRG4;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS;

EID: 84884821255     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: 19506007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2013.04.009     Document Type: Review

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