The role of STAT3 in thyroid cancer

Cancers

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 526-544

  Sosonkina, Nadiya ^a   Starenki, Dmytro ^a   Park, Jong In ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Interleukin 6; JAK; Leukemia inhibitory factor; STAT3; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARDIOTROPHIN 1; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; ONCOSTATIN M; PROTEIN P53; RAF PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1;

ANAPLASTIC THYROID CANCER; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID CANCER; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84896992673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers6010526     Document Type: Review

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