Purification and Properties of Estrogen-Responsive Cytoplasmic Thymidine Kinase from Human Breast Cancer

Cancer Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 604-610

  Pinkus, Lawrence ^b   Monaco, Marie E ^a   Aitken, Susan ^a   Lippman, Marc E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL H 3; ESTROGEN; RADIOISOTOPE; THYMIDINE H 3; THYMIDINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL LINE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; THYMIDINE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 0019350946     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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