Elevated furin expression in aggressive human head and neck tumors and tumor cell lines

Molecular Carcinogenesis

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 224-232

  Bassi, Daniel E ^a   Mahloogi, Haleh ^a   Al Saleem, Luma ^a   De Cicco, Ricardo Lopez ^a   Ridge, John A ^a   Klein Szanto, Andres J P ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Invasion and metastasis; Metalloproteinases; Pro protein convertases

Indexed keywords

FURIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG CANCER; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FURIN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUBTILISINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0034846315     PISSN: 08991987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mc.1057     Document Type: Article

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