Characterization of the Promoter Region for flt-1 Tyrosine Kinase Gene, A Receptor for Vascular Ehdothelial Growth Factor

Growth Factors

Volumn 13, Issue 42067, 1996, Pages 151-162

  Ikeda, Toshio ^a   Wakiya, Kenji ^a   Shibuya, Masabumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flt 1 tyrosine kinase; gene promoter; VEGF receptor

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-1;

EID: 0029862405     PISSN: 08977194     EISSN: 10292292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08977199609003217     Document Type: Article

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