Evaluation of seprase activity

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-62

  Kelly, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Extracellular matrix; Gelatinase; Invasion; Matrix metalloproteinase

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; GELATIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; SEPRASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; RADIOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; EVALUATION STUDIES; GELATINASES; LINEAR MODELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; RATS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032983715     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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