Galectin-3 overexpression protects from apoptosis by improving cell adhesion properties

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 545-554

  Matarrese, Paola ^a   Fusco, Ornella ^b   Tinari, Nicola ^b   Natoli, Clara ^b   Liu, Fu Tong ^c   Semeraro, Maria Letizia ^a   Malorni, Walter ^a   Iacobelli, Stefano ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALECTIN 3;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CELL INTERACTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOKINES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GALECTIN 3; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; INTEGRINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0033980614     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(20000215)85:4<545::AID-IJC17>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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