Transfection of rat ovarian surface epithelium with erb-B2/neu induces transformed phenotypes in vitro and the tumorigenic phenotype in vivo

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 297-306

  Davies, Barry R ^a   Auersperg, Nelly ^b   Worsley, Sally D ^a   Ponder, Bruce A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MATRIGEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C ERB; OVARY CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIRUS EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLLAGEN; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENES, ERBB-2; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMININ; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; OVARY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RATS; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031974405     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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