Use of epigenetic modulators as a powerful adjuvant for breast cancer therapies

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1238, Issue , 2015, Pages 487-509

  Claude Taupin, Aurore ^a   Boyer Guittaut, Michael ^a   Delage Mourroux, Régis ^a   Hervouet, Eric ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer; DNA; DNMT; DNMTi; Epigenetic; HDAC; HDACi; Histone; Methylation; Therapy

Indexed keywords

5 AZA 2' DEOXYCYTIDINE; ADENOSINE; AZACITIDINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; ENTINOSTAT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; METHIONINE; MICRORNA; PANOBINOSTAT; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHARMACEUTICAL VEHICLES AND ADDITIVES;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETIC MODULATOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS;

ADJUVANTS, PHARMACEUTIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DRUG DISCOVERY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HUMANS;

EID: 84955349268     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1804-1_25     Document Type: Article

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