Thymosin β-10 gene overexpression correlated with the highly malignant neoplastic phenotype of transformed thyroid cells in vivo and in vitro

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 823-828

  Califano, Daniela ^a   Monaco, Carmen ^a   Santelli, Giovanni ^a   Giuliano, Ada ^a   Veronese, Maria Luisa ^d   Berlingieri, Maria Teresa ^b   De Franciscis, Vittorio ^b   Berger, Nicole ^e,f   Trapasso, Francesco ^c   Santoro, Massimo ^b   Viglietto, Giuseppe ^a   Fusco, Alfredo ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Hopital de l'Antiquaille   (France)

^f CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; THYMOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 2Q; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID CELL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; THYMOSIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032520045     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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