Emergence of undifferentiated rat tracheal cell carcinomas, but not squamous cell carcinomas, is associated with a loss of expression of E-cadherin and of gap junction communication

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2043-2050

  Terzaghi Howe, M ^a   Chang, G W ^b   Popp, D ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCEIN; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GAP JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRACHEA CARCINOMA; TRACHEA MUCOSA;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031418679     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.11.2043     Document Type: Article

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