The cell-cell adhesion receptor Mel-CAM acts as a tumor suppressor in breast carcinoma

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 745-751

  Shih, Ie Ming ^a,b   Hsu, Mei Yu ^a   Palazzo, Juan P ^a   Herlyn, Meenhard ^a,c  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^c WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL ADHESION; CELL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD146; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030928062     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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