Isolation and characterization of invasive and noninvasive variants of a rat bladder tumor cell line

Japanese Journal of Cancer Research

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 831-838

  Nishi, Nozomu ^a   Inui, Masashi ^a   Kishi, Yukiko ^a   Miyanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Wada, Fumio ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bladder tumor; Catenin; Cell line; E cadherin; Invasion

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LEVEL; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

EID: 0030699290     PISSN: 09105050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1997.tb00458.x     Document Type: Article

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