A tumor-homing peptide with a targeting specificity related to lymphatic vessels

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 751-755

  Laakkonen, Pirjo ^a   Porkka, Kimmo ^a   Hoffman, Jason A ^a   Ruoslahti, Erkki ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; LYP 1 PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BLOOD VESSEL; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SUSPENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; KINETICS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPH VESSEL ENDOTHELIUM; LYMPHOCYTE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; PHAGE DISPLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCREENING; STAINING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEINS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0036063778     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm720     Document Type: Article

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