Transplantable rat thyroid cancer cell line FRTC transformed with muramyl dipeptide

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-46

  Iitaka, M ^a   Fukasawa, N ^a   Kitahama, S ^a   Miura, S ^a   Kawakami, Y ^a   Sato, H ^b   Sugano, S ^b   Ishii, J ^a   Katayama, S ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

c fos; c myc; Muramyl dipeptide; Thyroid cancer; Thyroid stimulating hormone receptor

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MESSENGER RNA; MURAMYL DIPEPTIDE; N ACETYLMURAMYLALANYL DEXTRO ISOGLUTAMINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C MYC; PERITONEUM TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 0031030734     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1997.7     Document Type: Article

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