Transformation of Thyroid Epithelium Is Associated with Loss of c-kit Receptor

Cancer Research

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1787-1791

  Natali, Pier G ^a   Berlingieri, Maria T ^c   Nicotra, Maria R ^b   Fusco, Alfredo ^d   Santoro, Eugenio ^a   Bigotti, Aldo ^a   Vecchio, Giancarlo ^c  

^a REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID CANCER;

CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-KIT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-MET; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0028911719     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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