Inhibition of snail family transcriptional repressor 2 (SNAI2) Enhances multidrug resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Zhao, Xin Yu ^a   Li, Lei ^a   Wang, Xiao Bo ^a   Fu, Rong Jie ^b   Lv, Ya Ping ^a   Jin, Wei ^a   Meng, Chao ^c   Chen, Guo Qiang ^a   Huang, Lei ^a   Zhao, Ke Wen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 1; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; VERAPAMIL; ABC TRANSPORTER; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SNAI2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL;

ABCB1 GENE; ANCHORAGE INDEPENDENT GROWTH; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER STEM CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFECTS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASTIC STEM CELLS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 84992020762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164752     Document Type: Article

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