...Yan Zhang; Ti Tong Background: The correlation between O-6-methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase ( MGMT ) promoter methylation and esophageal cancer remains controversial. This study was conducted to evaluate the clinical effect of MGMT promoter methylation on esophageal carcinoma patients. Methods...

...M.T. Sanz-Casla; M.L. Maestro; M. Vidaurreta; C. Maestro; M. Arroyo; J. Cerdán Background: Methylation of the CpG islands in the p16 gene promoter region is an important transcription repression mechanism that has been identified as an alternative mechanism for inactivating specific genes in cancer...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Barrett’s epithelium Stem cells p16 Methylation Review Article Dig Dis 2004;22:126 133 DOI: 10.1159/000080311 Molecular Findings in Barrett s Epithelium Andrea Tannapfel Institute of Pathology...

...Catherine Lofton-Day; Ralf Lesche DNA methylation, the modification of a cytosine nucleotide immediately preceding a guanine base in a stretch of DNA, is rapidly gaining strength in the diagnostic field as a powerful tool to be utilized for the discrimination of neoplastic tissue from its healthy...