Up-regulation of MET but not neural cell adhesion molecule expression by the PAX3-FKHR fusion protein in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3542-3546

  Ginsberg, Jill P ^a,b   Davis, Richard J ^b,c   Bennicelli, Jeannette L ^b   Nauta, Lauren E ^b   Barr, Frederic G ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; ONCOPROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONAL RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA, ALVEOLAR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0032529257     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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