Increase of βIII- and βIVa-tubulin isotypes in human prostate carcinoma cells as a result of estramustine resistance

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2584-2589

  Ranganathan, Sulabha ^a   Dexter, Dwayne W ^a   Benetatos, Christopher A ^a   Chapman, Andrew E ^b   Tew, Kenneth D ^a   Hudes, Gary R ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; COLCHICINE; ESTRAMUSTINE; PACLITAXEL; RHIZOXIN; VINBLASTINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ESTRAMUSTINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; TUBULIN; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0029973041     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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