Melanoma cell-cell interactions are mediated through heterophilic Mel- CAM/ligand adhesion

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 3835-3840

  Shih, Ie Ming ^a,b   Speicher, David ^a   Hsu, Mei Yu ^a   Levine, Elliot ^a   Herlyn, Meenhard ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUBCLASS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD146; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; HEPARAN SULFATE PROTEOGLYCANS; HEPARITIN SULFATE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROTEOGLYCANS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030800780     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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