PAX3 is expressed in human melanomas and contributes to tumor cell survival

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 823-826

  Scholl, Florence A ^a   Kamarashev, Jivko ^b   Murmann, Omar V ^a   Geertsen, Ralf ^b,c   Dummer, Reinhard ^b   Schäfer, Beat W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Molecular Diagnostics ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; LIPOCORTIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035117420     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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