Lactoferrin expression in human breast cancer

Cancer Biochemistry Biophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 163-178

  Penco, Silvana ^a   Caligo, Maria Adelaide ^b   Cipollini, Giovanna ^b   Bevilacqua, Generoso ^b   Garré, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Estrogen receptor; Expression regulation; Lactoferrin; Ribunuclease

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ERYTHROID SPECIFIC DNA BINDING FACTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LACTOFERRIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROID-SPECIFIC DNA-BINDING FACTORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LACTOFERRIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032829160     PISSN: 03057232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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