Concomitant overexpression of the EGFR and erbB-2 genes in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is correlated with dedifferentiation and metastasis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-22

  Stumm, Gabriele ^a,c   Eberwein, Stefanie ^b   Rostock Wolf, Sandra ^b   Stein, Henning ^b   Pomer, Siegfried ^b   Schlegel, Jürgen ^a   Waldherr, Rudiger ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Department of Neuropathology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, ERBB-2; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2;

EID: 0029930643     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19960220)69:1<17::AID-IJC4>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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