Catalytic cleavage of the androgen-regulated TMPRSS2 protease results in its secretion by prostate and prostate cancer epithelia

Cancer Research

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1686-1692

  Afar, Daniel E H ^a   Vivanco, Igor ^a   Hubert, Rene S ^a   Kuo, James ^a   Chen, Emily ^a   Saffran, Douglas C ^a   Raitano, Arthur B ^a   Jakobovits, Aya ^a  

^a UroGenesys Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; PROTEINASE;

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER THERAPY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; XENOGRAFT;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DOWN-REGULATION; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, SCID; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035866379     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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