Introduction of the c-kit gene leads to growth suppression of a breast cancer cell line, MCF-7

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6 B, 1996, Pages 3397-3402

  Nishida, Keiko ^a   Tsukamoto, Tetsuya ^a,b   Uchida, Kosaku ^a   Takahash, Toshitada ^a   Takahashi, Takashi ^a   Ueda, Ryuzo ^a,c  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; c kit; Growth inhibition; Receptor; SCF

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL CLONE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 0030485335     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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