Expression of the c-Met/HGF receptor in human breast carcinoma: Correlation with tumor progression

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-309

  Beviglia, Lucia ^a   Matsumoto, Kentaro ^a,b   Lin, Ching Shwun ^a   Ziober, Barry L ^a   Kramer, Randall H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SCATTER FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030791855     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970620)74:3<301::AID-IJC12>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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