Significance of CD44 gene products for cancer diagnosis and disease evaluation

The Lancet

Volumn 340, Issue 8827, 1992, Pages 1053-1058

  Matsumura, Y ^a   Tarin, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERMES ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0026726345     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(92)93077-Z     Document Type: Article

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4. Multiple variants of the human lymphocyte homing receptor CD44 generated by insertions at a single site in the extracellular domain
5. A lymphocyte molecule implicated in lymph node homing is a member of the cartilage link protein family
6. The hematopoietic and epithelial forms of CD44 are distinct polypeptides with different adhesion potentials for hyaluronate-bearing cells
7. Monoclonal antibodies to human lymphocyte homing receptors define a novel class of adhesion molecules on diverse cell types
8. Isolation and characterization of humsan melanoma cell variants expressing high and low levels of CD44
9. Distinct effects of two CD44 isoforms on tumor growth in vivo
10. A new variant of glycoprotein CD44 confers metastatic potential to rat carcinoma cells
11. Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction