Overexpression of Lerk-5/Eplg5 messenger RNA: A novel marker for increased tumorigenicity and metastatic potential in human malignant melanomas

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 791-797

  Vogt, Thomas ^a,b   Stolz, Wilhelm ^a   Welsh, John ^b   Jung, Barbara ^b   Kerbel, Robert S ^c   Kobayashi, Hiroaki ^c   Landthaler, Michael ^a   McClelland, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b SIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TUMOR MARKER; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; EPHRIN-B2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0031946730     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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