Production and characterization of WEG-1, an epidermal growth factor/transforming growth factor-α-responsive mouse uterine epithelial cell line

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 175-184

  Wegner, Carole C ^a   Cherington, Van ^c   Clemens, Jeffrey W ^b,d   Jacobs, Andrew L ^a   Julian, Joanne ^a   Surveyor, Gulnar A ^a   Bell, Ewen C ^a   Carson, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOMETRIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLOMERULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

EID: 0030021335     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.1.8536610     Document Type: Article

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