Specificity of antibodies directed against Env protein of human endogenous retroviruses in patients with germ cell tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 4362-4365

  Sauter, Marlies ^a   Roemer, Klaus ^a   Best, Barbara ^a   Afting, Matthias ^a   Schommer, Stefanie ^a   Seitz, Gerhard ^b   Hartmann, Michael ^c   Mueller Lantzsch, Nikolaus ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL SURFACE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETROVIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; GERMINOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; SPODOPTERA; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029782219     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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