Reduced expression of neural cell adhesion molecule induces metastatic dissemination of pancreatic β tumor cells

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 286-291

  Perl, Anne Karina ^a   Dahl, Ulf ^b,d   Wilgenbus, Petra ^a   Cremer, Harold ^c   Semb, Henrik ^b,d   Christofori, Gerhard ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INSULINOMA; MESENCHYME CELL; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INSULINOMA; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032978138     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6502     Document Type: Article

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