Metastatic phenotype correlates with high expression of membrane- associated complete β-human chorionic gonadotropin in vivo

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2388-2399

  Acevedo, Hernan F ^a   Hartsock, Robert J ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

carboxy terminal peptide; human cancer; human chorionic gonadotropin; metastatic phenotype

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; EPITOPE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029806522     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19961201)78:11<2388::AID-CNCR18>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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