Deficiency of connexin43 gap junctions is an independent marker for breast tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 59, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 4104-4110

  Laird, Dale W ^a,b   Fistouris, Paulina ^b   Batist, Gerald ^a   Alpert, Lesley ^a   Huynh, Hung T ^a   Carystinos, George D ^a   Alaoui Jamali, Moulay A ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR MARKER; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; DISEASE MARKER; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONNEXIN 43; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, ANIMAL; MIDDLE AGED; RATS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033566985     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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