Wnt5a promotes vasculogenic mimicry and epithelial-mesenchymal transition via protein kinase Cα in epithelial ovarian cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 771-779

  Qi, Hong ^a   Sun, Baocun ^a   Zhao, Xiulan ^a   Du, Jing ^a   Gu, Qiang ^a   Liu, Yanrong ^a   Cheng, Runfen ^a   Dong, Xueyi ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epithelial ovarian cancer; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Protein kinase c ; Vasculogenic mimicry; Wnt5a

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; WNT5A PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PRKCA PROTEIN, HUMAN; WNT PROTEIN; WNT5A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG ADULT; CANCER STAGING; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR CELL LINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN KINASE C-ALPHA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903146004     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.2014.3229     Document Type: Article

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