Expression of epidermal growth factor receptor and CD44 splicing variants sharing exons 6 and 9 on gastric and esophageal carcinomas: A two- color flow-cytometric analysis

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-54

  Koyama, Shohei ^a   Maruyama, Tsunehiko ^a   Adachi, Shinya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

CD44 splicing variant isoforms (CD44v6, CD44v9); Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR); Esophageal carcinoma; Flow cytometry; Gastric carcinoma

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HERMES ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; EXON; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RNA SPLICING; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; VIRUS GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD80; ASCITES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; EXONS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032951097     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004320050241     Document Type: Article

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