Characterization of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Human Glioma Cell Lines and Xenografts

Cancer Research

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 1990, Pages 8017-8022

  Bigner, Sandra H ^a   Humphrey, Peter A ^a   Friedman, Henry S ^a   Bigner, Darell D ^a   Wong, Albert J ^b   Vogelstein, Bert ^c   Mark, Joachim ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Fox Chase Oncology Center ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE; TUMOR XENOGRAFT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, NEOPLASM; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0025686126     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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