Differential Expression of CD44 Splice Variants in Intestinal- and Diffuse-Type Human Gastric Carcinomas and Normal Gastric Mucosa

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 18, 1993, Pages 4197-4203

  Heider, Karl Heinz ^a   Dammrich, Jobst ^b   Skroch Angel, Petra ^a   Muller Hermelink, Hans Konrad ^b   Vollmers, H Peter ^b   Herrlich, Peter ^a   Ponta, Helmut ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HERMES ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH MUCOSA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, LYMPHOCYTE HOMING; RNA; RNA, NEOPLASM; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0027848938     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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