The SDF-1/CXCR4 axis induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 392, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 77-84

  Li, Xuqi ^a   Li, Pei ^a   Chang, Yuanhong ^b   Xu, Qinhong ^a   Wu, Zheng ^a   Ma, Qingyong ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fourth Hospital of Xi'an City   (China)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; CXCR4; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Invasion; Receptor; Stellate cell

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; CXCL12 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CXCR4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEP3B CELL LINE; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA CELL LINE; HEPG2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MHCC97 CELL LINE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMMC7721 CELL LINE; STELLATE CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; WESTERN BLOTTING; GENETICS; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; DNA PRIMERS; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, CXCR4;

EID: 84905161365     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: 15734919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-014-2020-8     Document Type: Article

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