Ovarian tumor cells express a transmembrane serine protease: A potential candidate for early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention

Tumor Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 104-114

  Tanimoto, Hirotoshi ^a   Underwood, Lowell J ^b   Wang, Yinxiang ^b   Shigemasa, Kazushi ^c   Parmley, Tim H ^b   O'Brien, Timothy J ^b  

^a Asada General Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracellular matrix; Ovarian cancer; Serine protease; Transmembrane serine protease; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTIDINE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LIGAND; METALLOPROTEINASE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYBRIDIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OVARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035178571     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050604     Document Type: Article

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