Expression of MCAM/MUC18 by human melanoma cells leads to increased tumor growth and metastasis

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2295-2303

  Xie, Shanhai ^a   Luca, Mario ^a   Huang, Suyun ^a   Gutman, Mordechai ^a   Reich, Reuven ^b   Johnson, Judith P ^c   Bar Eli, Menashe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; LAMININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NEVUS CELL; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD146; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIVISION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LAMININ; MALE; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030913615     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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