Stem cell factor is not essential for cell survival and proliferation of soft tissue sarcoma of neuroectodermal origin

Haematologica

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 879-886

  Ricotti, Emanuela ^b   Bertorello, Nicoletta ^b   Vai, Sergio ^b   Pagani, Alberto ^b   Cordero Di Montezemolo, Luca ^b   Madon, Enrico ^b   Basso, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autocrine loop; c kit; Differentiation; SCF

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNALIZATION; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; BUCLADESINE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; S PHASE; SARCOMA; STEM CELL FACTOR; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032699369     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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