Inducible expression of cancer-testis antigens in human prostate cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 51, 2016, Pages 84359-84374

  Heninger, Erika ^a,c   Krueger, Timothy E G ^c   Thiede, Stephanie M ^a,c   Sperger, Jamie M ^a,c   Byers, Brianna L ^c   Kircher, Madison R ^c   Kosoff, David ^a,c   Yang, Bing ^b,c   Jarrard, David F ^b,c   McNeel, Douglas G ^a,c   Lang, Joshua M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer testis antigen; Epigenetics; Methylation; Prostate cancer; Tumor immunotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CANCER TESTIS ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; DECITABINE; MESSENGER RNA; PANOBINOSTAT; PROTEIN ESO1; PROTEIN MAGE; PROTEIN SAR35; PROTEIN SSX2; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZACITIDINE; CTAG1B PROTEIN, HUMAN; HYDROXAMIC ACID; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA X BREAKPOINT PROTEINS; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTA GENE; EPIGENETICS; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ORGAN CULTURE; PROMOTER REGION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER CELL LINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMOR BIOPSY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; TESTIS; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AZACITIDINE; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; HYDROXAMIC ACIDS; INDOLES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TESTIS;

EID: 85007494971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.12711     Document Type: Article

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