Cancer Letters
Volume 286, Issue 2 , Pages 217-222 , 28 December 2009

MicroRNA-138 suppresses invasion and promotes apoptosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines

  • Xiqiang Liu

      Affiliations

    • Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • Guanghua School and Research Institute of Stomatology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
    • ,
  • Lu Jiang

      Affiliations

    • Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • ,
  • Anxun Wang

      Affiliations

    • Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
    • ,
  • Jinsheng Yu

      Affiliations

    • Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • ,
  • Fei Shi

      Affiliations

    • Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • ,
  • Xiaofeng Zhou

      Affiliations

    • Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • Graduate College, UIC Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Dentistry, 801 S. Paulina Street, Room 530C, Chicago, IL 60612-7213. Tel.: +1 312 355 0825; fax: +1 312 413 1604.

Received 31 March 2009 ,Revised 22 May 2009 ,Accepted 26 May 2009.

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PII: S0304-3835(09)00383-8

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2009.05.030

Cancer Letters
Volume 286, Issue 2 , Pages 217-222 , 28 December 2009

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