Developing strategies to re-activate epigenetically silenced tumor suppressor genes in acute myeloid leukemia

Epigenetic mechanisms are essential for normal cell development. Alteration in those normal processes leads to malignant cell transformation and with this to cancer development. Use of inhibitors that alter the epigenetics of DNA methylation and histone post translational modifications has lead to t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gonzalez-Zuluaga, Carolina
Other Authors: Moore, Stanley
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Saskatchewan 2011
Subjects:
p21
p15
Online Access:http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-01112011-165701/