Aberrant methylation accounts for cell adhesion-related gene silencing during 3-methylcholanthrene and diethylnitrosamine induced multistep rat lung carcinogenesis associated with overexpression of DNA methyltransferases 1 and 3a
Keywords: 5-aza-dC, 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine; CIS, carcinoma in situ; DEN, diethylnitrosamine; DNMTs, DNA methyltransferases; MCA, 3-methylcholanthrene; MSP, methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; RT-PCR, reverse transcript