Transcriptional upregulation of c-MET is associated with invasion and tumor budding in colorectal cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 48, 2016, Pages 78932-78945

  Bradley, Conor A ^a   Dunne, Philip D ^a   Bingham, Victoria ^a   McQuaid, Stephen ^a,b   Khawaja, Hajrah ^a   Craig, Stephanie ^a   James, Jackie ^a,b   Moore, Wendy L ^a   McArt, Darragh G ^a   Lawler, Mark ^a   Dasgupta, Sonali ^a   Johnston, Patrick G ^a   van Schaeybroeck, Sandra ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

c MET; Colorectal cancer (CRC); Invasion; Metastasis; Tumor budding

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; HGF PROTEIN, HUMAN; MET PROTEIN, HUMAN; SCATTER FACTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA CELL LINE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCULTURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONIC MYOFIBROBLAST; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HCT116 CELL LINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HKH 2 CELL LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LOVO CELL LINE; MALE; MET GENE; MYOFIBROBLAST; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR BUDDING; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UPREGULATION; CELL MOTION; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HCT 116 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HCT116 CELLS; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOFIBROBLASTS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PARACRINE COMMUNICATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSFECTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84999788869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.12933     Document Type: Article

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