Concomitant analysis of the epidermal growth factor receptor family in esophageal cancer: Overexpression of epidermal growth factor receptor mRNA but not of c-erbB-2 and c-erbB-3

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1010-1018

  Friess, Helmut ^a   Fukuda, Akira ^a   Tang, Wen Hao ^a   Eichenberger, Adrian ^a   Furlan, Neva ^a   Zimmermann, Arthur ^b   Korc, Murray ^c   Büchler, Markus W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ONCOGENE C ERB; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; RECEPTOR, ERBB-3; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM;

EID: 0032848367     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002689900616     Document Type: Article

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