Biosynthetic Basis of Incompatible Histo-Blood Group A Antigen Expression: Anti-A Transferase Antibodies Reactive with Gastric Cancer Tissue of Type O Individuals

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 22, 1993, Pages 5494-5500

  Bennett, Eric Paul ^c   Mandel, Ulla ^c   Dabelsteen, Erik ^c   Clausen, Henrik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP A ANTIGEN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP O; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FROZEN SECTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027433992     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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