Preferential expression of novel MUC1 tumor antigen isoforms in human epithelial tumors and their tumor-potentiating function

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 741-749

  Baruch, Amos ^a   Hartmann, Mor Li ^a   Zrihan Licht, Sheila ^a   Greenstein, Shulamit ^a   Burstein, Matti ^a   Keydar, Iafa ^a   Weiss, Mordechai ^a   Smorodinsky, Nechama ^a   Wreschner, Daniel H ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUC1 ANTIGEN; MUCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030994446     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970529)71:5<741::AID-IJC9>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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