bcl-xS gene therapy induces apoptosis of human mammary tumors in nude mice

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1965-1969

  Ealovega, Mark W ^a   McGinnis, Patrick K ^a   Sumantran, Venil N ^a   Clarke, Michael F ^a   Wicha, Max S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCL2L1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; BCL2L1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INHIBITION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 0029664990     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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