Twist: A molecular target in cancer therapeutics

Tumor Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2497-2506

  Khan, Md Asaduzzaman ^a,b   Chen, Han Chun ^b   Zhang, Dianzheng ^c   Fu, Junjiang ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer stem cells; Cancer therapy; Epigenetic changes; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Metastasis; Twist

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CAFFEIC ACID; CISPLATIN; CURCUMIN; DOXORUBICIN; EBSELEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FIBULIN 5; FUCOIDIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; QUERCETIN; RAS PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; SULFORAPHANE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNINDEXED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN; WNT2 PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME REPRESSION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRAVASATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO ONCOGENE; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID CANCER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWIST1 GENE; TWIST2 GENE; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84885424897     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-013-1002-x     Document Type: Review

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