Cathepsin B Activity in B16 Melanoma Cells: A Possible Marker for Metastatic Potential

Cancer Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1982, Pages 980-986

  Sloane, Bonnie F ^a   Honn, Kenneth V ^a,a   Taylor, John D ^a   Sadler, John G ^a   Turner, William A ^a   Kimpson, Jeffrey J ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CYTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MOUSE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ACID PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN D; CATHEPSINS; CELL LINE; GLUCURONIDASE; LYSOSOMES; MELANOMA; MICE; MUTATION; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL;

EID: 0020027507     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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