Elevated Levels of Transforming Growth Factor β Messenger RNA and Its Polypeptide in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 51, Issue 15, 1991, Pages 4080-4083

  Ito, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Kawata, Sumio ^a,b   Tamura, Shinji ^a,b   Takaishi, Kenji ^a,b   Shirai, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Kiso, Shinichi ^a,b   Yabuuchi, Iwao ^a,b   Matsuda, Yasuo ^a,b   Nishioka, Minoru ^a,b   Tarui, Seiichiro ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Ohtemae General Hospital ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIORECEPTOR ASSAY;

AGED; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0026406073     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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