Differentiation state and invasiveness of human breast cancer cell lines

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 31, Issue 2-3, 1994, Pages 325-335

  Sommers, Connie L ^a   Byers, Stephen W ^a   Thompson, Erik W ^a   Torri, Jeffrey A ^a   Gelmann, Edward P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cadherins; epithelial; integrins; invasion; vimentin

Indexed keywords

DESMOPLAKIN; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; INTEGRIN; KERATIN; MATRIGEL; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DESMOSOME; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTAXIS; COLLAGEN; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPITHELIUM; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; LAMININ; MICE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTEOGLYCANS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0028138771     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00666165     Document Type: Article

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