The metastatic ability of Ewing's sarcoma cells is modulated by stem cell factor and by its receptor c-kit

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 157, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2123-2131

  Landuzzi, Lorena ^a,c   De Giovanni, Carla ^a,b   Nicoletti, Giordano ^a,c   Rossi, Ilaria ^a   Ricci, Cinzia ^a   Astolfi, Annalisa ^a   Scopece, Luciano ^a   Scotlandi, Katia ^d   Serra, Massimo ^d   Bagnara, Gian Paolo ^b,e   Nanni, Patrizia ^b   Lollini, Pier Luigi ^a,b  

^a Section of Cancer Research   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG METASTASIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0033634872     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64850-X     Document Type: Article

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