[Because the majority of colon carcinomas are known to overexpress antiapoptotic proteins such as survivin and Bcl-2 and show only limited ability to undergo apoptosis, we hypothesized that the ability of sulindac to cause regression of adenomas and to inhibit colon carcinogenesis is mediated, at least in part, by down-regulation of one or more of these antiapoptotic proteins.]. 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