Abrogation of c-kit/Steel factor-dependent tumorigenesis by kinase defective mutants of the c-kit receptor: c-kit Kinase defective mutants as candidate tools for cancer gene therapy

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 4343-4346

  Li, Qin ^a   Kondoh, Gen ^a   Inafuku, Sadamitsu ^b   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a   Hakura, Akira ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Minoo City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; STEEL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE THERAPY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENES; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SEQUENCE DELETION; STEM CELL FACTOR; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029738764     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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