Human chorionic gonadotropin‐beta subunit gene expression in cultured human fetal and cancer cells of different types and origins

Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1467-1475

  Acevedo, Hernan F ^a   Tong, Jennifer Y ^a   Hartsock, Robert J ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer; fetal cells; hCG mRNA; human chorionic gonadotropin

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; FETUS CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029119743     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19951015)76:8<1467::AID-CNCR2820760826>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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