The growth arrest-specific transcript 5 (GAS5): a pivotal tumor suppressor long noncoding RNA in human cancers

Tumor Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1437-1444

  Ma, Chenhui ^a   Shi, Xuefei ^c   Zhu, Qingqing ^a   Li, Qian ^a   Liu, Yafang ^b   Yao, Yanwen ^a   Song, Yong ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUZHOU CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cancer; GAS5; Long noncoding RNAs; Proliferation; Tumor suppressor

Indexed keywords

GEFITINIB; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT 5; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GAS5 LONG NON-CODING RNA, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

APOPTOSIS; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER RESISTANCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOWN REGULATION; EXON; GAS5 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; FEMALE; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84949515216     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-015-4521-9     Document Type: Review

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