Overexpression of c-erbB-3 in various stages of human squamous cell carcinomas

Oncology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-167

  Funayama, Takaaki ^a   Nakanishi, Tohru ^a   Takahashi, Korjiro ^a   Taniguchi, Shigehiko ^a   Takigawa, Masaharu ^a   Matsumura, Tomohiro ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

erbB 3 squamous cell carcinoma; Immunohistochemical study; Oral region; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C ERB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DNA PROBES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-3; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0031982805     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000011851     Document Type: Article

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