Expression of urotensin II and urotensin II receptor mRNAs in various human tumor cell lines and secretion of urotensin II-like immunoreactivity by SW-13 adrenocortical carcinoma cells

Peptides

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1175-1179

  Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Totsune, Kazuhito ^a   Murakami, Osamu ^a   Shibahara, Shigeki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical; Cancer; Tumor; Urotensin II

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; RECEPTOR; SEPHADEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROTENSIN II; UROTENSIN II RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHORIOCARCINOMA; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; DEVICE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ADRENOCORTICAL CARCINOMA; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; HUMANS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UROTENSINS;

EID: 0034968968     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(01)00441-7     Document Type: Article

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