Reduction of metastatic properties of BL6 melanoma cells expressing terminal fucoseα1-2-galactose after α1,2-fucosyltransferase cDNA transfection

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 332-336

  Gorelik, Elieser ^a   Xu, Fan ^a   Henion, Timothy ^b   Anaraki, Farvardin ^b   Galili, Uri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSFECTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIALYLATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FUCOSE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GALACTOSE; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031023592     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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