SALL4, a novel marker for human gastric carcinogenesis and metastasis

Oncogene

Volumn 33, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 5491-5500

  Zhang, L ^a   Xu, Z ^a   Xu, X ^a   Zhang, B ^a   Wu, H ^b   Wang, M ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Yang, T ^a   Cai, J ^a   Yan, Y ^a   Mao, F ^a   Zhu, W ^a   Shao, Q ^a   Qian, H ^a   Xu, W ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology First People's Hospital of Lianyungang   (China)

Author keywords

EMT; gastric cancer; metastasis; SALL4; stemness

Indexed keywords

SALL4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MOTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH TUMOR; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOGRAFT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84887891435     PISSN: 09509232     EISSN: 14765594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/onc.2013.495     Document Type: Article

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