AFAP1-AS1 is upregulated and promotes esophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell proliferation and inhibits cell apoptosis

Cancer Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2879-2885

  Luo, Hong Lei ^a   Huang, Ming De ^a   Guo, Jia Ni ^a   Fan, Rui Hua ^a   Xia, Xiao Tian ^a   He, Jing Dong ^a   Chen, Xiao Fei ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AFAP1 AS1; esophageal squamous cell carcinoma; malignant proliferation; noncoding RNA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER STAGING; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE AFAP1 AS1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR VOLUME; UPREGULATION; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR CELL LINE;

AFAP1-AS1 LONG NONCODING RNA, HUMAN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RNA, LONG NONCODING; TUMOR BURDEN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84992457866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cam4.848     Document Type: Article

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