Increased levels of α6 integrins are associated with the metastatic phenotype of human breast cancer cells

Clinical and Experimental Metastasis

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-332

  Mukhopadhyay, Ratna ^a   Theriault, Richard L ^a   Price, Janet E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Integrins; Metastasis; Progression; Xenograft model

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; INTEGRIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; BREAST TUMOR; CELL CULTURE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA6; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033147378     PISSN: 02620898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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