Evidence for a functional kit receptor in melanoma, breast, and lung carcinoma cells

Cancer Gene Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 176-182

  DiPaola, Robert S ^a,b   Kuczynski, Wojciech I ^a   Onodera, Kazufumi ^a   Ratajczak, Mariusz Z ^a   Hijiya, Nobuko ^a,c   Moore, Jonni ^a   Gewirtz, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense; Autocrine; c kit; Oligodeoxynucleotides; Steel factor

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CODON; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; MELANOMA; METABOLISM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CELL DIVISION; CODON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELL FACTOR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031133118     PISSN: 09291903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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