Role of interleukin-6 in cancer progression and therapeutic resistance

Tumor Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 11553-11572

  Kumari, Neeraj ^a,b   Dwarakanath, B S ^c   Das, Asmita ^b   Bhatt, Anant Narayan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

^b DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; IL 6; Radio resistance; STAT 3; Therapeutic resistance

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; STAT3 PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME INHIBITION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MACROPHAGE; METASTASIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHUMAN; OVARY CARCINOMA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PANCREAS CANCER; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG RESISTANCE; INFLAMMATION; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84984676988     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-016-5098-7     Document Type: Review

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