Suppressed expression of CD44 variant isoforms during human glioma A172 cell differentiation induced by cyclic AMP

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-192

  Sakai, Hideki ^a   Nakashima, Shigeru ^a   Yoshimura, Shin Ichi ^a   Nakatani, Kei ^a   Shinoda, Jun ^a   Sakai, Noboru ^a   Yamada, Hiromu ^a   Nozawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

c jun; CD44; Dibutyryl cyclic AMP; Differentiation; Glioma; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Theophylline

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; HERMES ANTIGEN; THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029995919     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12683-5     Document Type: Article

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