Humoral Immunity against a Tandem Repeat Epitope of Human Mucin MUC-1 in Sera from Breast, Pancreatic, and Colon Cancer Patients

Cancer Research

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 2856-2860

  Metzgar, Richard S ^c   Fontenot, J Darceli ^a   Pecher, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MUCIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPITOPES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUCINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0028235908     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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