Long non-coding RNAs: emerging players in gastric cancer

Tumor Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 10591-10600

  Guo, Xiaoqiang ^a   Xia, Jiazeng ^a   Deng, Kaiyuan ^a  

^a WUXI NO 2 PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Gastric cancer; Long non coding RNA; Prognosis; Therapeutic target

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

APOPTOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84920938274     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-014-2548-y     Document Type: Review

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