[We have found that the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21(WAF1/cip1) plays a major role in regulating several aspects of mucosal homeostasis and the response to dietary and pharmacologic modulators of tumorigenesis; that disruption of lineages of differentiation of intestinal epithelial cells are intimately involved in tumor formation; and that important pathways that contribute to normal homeostasis and cancer development may be coordinately regulated by mitochondrial function, with the mitochondrial membrane potential playing a key role.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE