Importance of HOX genes in normal prostate gland formation, prostate cancer development and its early detection

BJU International

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 535-540

  Javed, Saqib ^a   Langley, Stephen E M ^a  

^a ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HOX genes; prostate cancer; prostate gland; prostate gland development

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SIZE; CARCINOGENESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENGRAILED 1 GENE; ENGRAILED 2 GENE; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOX GENE; HOX13 GENE; HOXA1 GENE; HOXB13 GENE; HOXC8 GENE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEMINAL VESICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SECTION;

HOX GENES; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE GLAND; PROSTATE GLAND DEVELOPMENT;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896404455     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bju.12269     Document Type: Review

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