Amphiregulin antisense oligonucleotide inhibits the growth of T3M4 human pancreatic cancer cells and sensitizes the cells to EGF receptor-targeted therapy

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 512-517

  Funatomi, Hitoshi ^a   Itakura, Jun ^a   Ishiwata, Toshiyuki ^a   Pastan, Ira ^b   Thompson, Stewart A ^c   Johnson, Gibbes R ^d   Korc, Murray ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

^d CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PSEUDOMONAS EXOTOXIN; TP 40; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL DIVISION; EXOTOXINS; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030740155     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970729)72:3<512::AID-IJC21>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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