Differential growth of N- and S-type human neuroblastoma cells xenografted into SCID mice. Correlation with apoptosis

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 415-422

  Piacentini, Mauro ^a   Piredda, Lucia ^a   Starace, Donatella ^a   Annicchiarico Petruzzelli, Margherita ^a   Mattei, Maurizio ^a   Oliverio, Serafina ^a   Farrace, Maria Grazia ^a   Melino, Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; bcl 2; Tissue transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P53;

ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIVISION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROBLASTOMA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; TRANSGLUTAMINASES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0030470053     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199612)180:4<415::AID-PATH684>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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