Activation of neurotrophin-3 receptor TrkC induces apoptosis in medulloblastomas

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 711-719

  Kim, John Y H ^a,c   Sutton, Mary E ^a   Lu, Diane J ^a   Cho, Tracey A ^a   Goumnerova, Liliana C ^a   Goritchenko, Lyuda ^a   Kaufman, Jill R ^a   Lam, K K ^a   Billet, Amy L ^c   Tarbell, Nancy J ^d   Wu, Julian ^b,e   Allen, Jeffrey C ^f   Stiles, Charles D ^c   Segal, Rosalind A ^b   Pomeroy, Scott L ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; LOMUSTINE; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; VINBLASTINE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033083048     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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