Malignant transformation of nontrophoblastic cells is associated with the expression of chorionic gonadotropin β genes normally transcribed in trophoblastic cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 516-523

  Bellet, Dominique ^a   Lazar, Vladimir ^b   Bièche, Ivan ^b,c   Paradis, Valérie ^b,d   Giovangrandi, Yves ^b   Paterlini, Patricia ^e   Lidereau, Rosette ^c   Bedossa, Pierre ^b,d   Bidart, Jean Michel ^a,b   Vidaud, Michel ^b  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b Lab d'Immunologie des Tumeurs   (France)

^c CENTRE RENÉ HUGUENIN   (France)

^d BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RNA TRANSLATION; THYROID CANCER; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TROPHOBLAST;

CELL LINE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0031048444     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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