Targeting tumor cells via EGF receptors: Selective toxicity of an HBEGF- toxin fusion protein

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 106-111

  Chandler, Lois A ^a   Sosnowski, Barbara A ^a   Mcdonald, John R ^a   Price, Janet E ^b   Aukerman, Sharon L ^a   Baird, Andrew ^a   Pierce, Glenn F ^a   Houston, L L ^a  

^a Selective Genetics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIC FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HEPARIN BINDING EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN; SAPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INHIBITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTOXINS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PLANT PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031849597     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980925)78:1<106::AID-IJC17>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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