Influence of culture media and multidrug resistance on the wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) glycocytochemical expression of two human glioblastoma cell lines

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4 A, 1996, Pages 1719-1725

  Camby, Isabelle ^a   Salmon, Isabelle ^b   Rombaut, Katja ^b   Pasteels, Jean Lambert ^a   Kiss, Robert ^a   Danguy, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cell lines; Cytochemistry; Human glioblastoma; Lectin

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GLYCAN; STEROID; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FETAL CALF SERUM; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BLOOD; CARBOHYDRATES; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, NEOPLASM; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESTRADIOL; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLOIDIES; RECEPTORS, MITOGEN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS); VINBLASTINE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININS;

EID: 0029759536     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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