Cultured endometrial cancer cells exhibit autocrine growth factor stimulation that is not observed in cultured normal endometrial cells

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 380-386

  Reynolds, R Kevin ^a   Owens, Catherine A ^a   Roberts, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; UTERUS CANCER;

EID: 0029922973     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gyno.1996.0058     Document Type: Article

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