The integrin α6β1 promotes the survival of metastatic human breast carcinoma cells in mice

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1191-1198

  Wewer, Ulla M ^a   Shaw, Leslie M ^b   Albrechtsen, Reidar ^a   Mercurio, Arthur M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GROWTH STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA6BETA1; INTEGRINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 0030695152     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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