The expression of gonadotropin-releasing hormone and its receptor in endometrial cancer, and its relevance as an autocrine growth factor

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2059-2065

  Chatzaki, Ekaterini ^a   Bax, Christopher M R ^a   Eidne, Karin A ^b   Anderson, Lorraine ^b   Grudzinskas, J Gedis ^c   Gallagher, Christopher J ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CANCER GROWTH; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029920507     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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