Cancer development, progression, and therapy: An epigenetic overview

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 21087-21113

  Sarkar, Sibaji ^a   Horn, Garrick ^a   Moulton, Kimberly ^a   Oza, Anuja ^a   Byler, Shannon ^a   Kokolus, Shannon ^a   Longacre, Mckenna ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; Demethylation; Epigenetics; Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT); Hydroxymethylation; Metastasis; Methylation; Micro rna; Therapeutics

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; 5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; AZACITIDINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; ENTACTIN; ENTINOSTAT; IDARUBICIN; INTEGRIN; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 126; MICRORNA 182; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 22; PACLITAXEL; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P27; PROTEIN P53; SELECTIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UNINDEXED DRUG; UVOMORULIN; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADVANCED CANCER; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MUTATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENESIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84886257639     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms141021087     Document Type: Review

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