Frequent Expression of a Mutant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor in Multiple Human Tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 1995, Pages 5536-5539

  Moscatello, David K ^a   Holgado Madruga, Marina ^a   Godwin, Andrew K ^c   Ramirez, Gloria ^a   Gunn, George ^a   Zoltick, Philip W ^b   Biegel, Jaclyn A ^d   Hayes, Roberta L ^e   Wong, Albert J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CHILDHOOD CANCER; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028800035     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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