Differential Expression of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and Its Ligands in Primary Non-Small Cell Lung Cancers and Adjacent Benign Lung

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 2379-2385

  Rusch, V ^a   Baselga, J ^a   Cordon Cardo, C ^a   Orazem, J ^a   Zaman, M ^a   Hoda, S ^a   Mcintosh, J ^a   Kurie, J ^a   Dmitrovsky, E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGANDS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0027159063     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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