Inhibition of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase alters microRNA expression and reverses epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition
- Authors:
- James W. Antoon
- Ashley M. Nitzchke
- Elizabeth C. Martin
- Lyndsay V. Rhodes
- Seungyoon Nam
- Scott Wadsworth
- Virgilo A. Salvo
- Steven Elliott
- Bridgette Collins-Burow
- Kenneth P. Nephew
- Matthew E. Burow
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Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Raritan, NJ 08869, USA - Published online on: February 8, 2013 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.2013.1814
- Pages: 1139-1150
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Copyright: © Antoon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License [CC BY_NC 3.0].
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