Growth factor-independent proliferation of rat mammary carcinoma cells by autocrine secretion of neu-differentiation factor/heregulin and transforming growth factor-α

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 134-143

  Ethier, Stephen P ^a   Langton, Beatrice C ^b   Dilts, Cheryl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

erB2; Growth factor independence; Mammary carcinoma; neu differentiation factor heregulin

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA PRIMERS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUREGULINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029935297     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2744(199602)15:2<134::AID-MC6>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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