Vascular endothelial growth factor C promotes breast cancer progression via a novel antioxidant mechanism that involves regulation of superoxide dismutase 3

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Chu An ^a,c   Harrell, J Chuck ^b   Iwanaga, Ritsuko ^a   Jedlicka, Paul ^a   Ford, Heide L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; CLAUDIN; DOXORUBICIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ETOPOSIDE; EXTRACELLULAR SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPILIN 2; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; VASCULOTROPIN C; ANTIOXIDANT; SOD3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VEGFC PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHANGIOGENESIS; MDA MB 231 CELL LINE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOD3 GENE; TUMOR INITIATING CELL; TUMOR VOLUME; UPREGULATION; VEGF C GENE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STEM CELL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENZYMOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECONDARY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLAUDINS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR C;

EID: 84988841190     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-014-0462-2     Document Type: Article

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