Expression of multiple molecular phenotypes by aggressive melanoma tumor cells: Role in vasculogenic mimicry

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-27

  Seftor, Elisabeth A ^a,b   Meltzer, Paul S ^c   Schatteman, Gina C ^a   Gruman, Lynn M ^a   Hess, Angela R ^a   Kirschmann, Dawn A ^a,b   Seftor, Richard E B ^a,b   Hendrix, Mary J C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelial cell kinase (ECK, EphA2); Melanoma; Microarray; Vasculogenic mimicry; VE cadherin

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; EPHRIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; TUMOR MARKER; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A2; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; REVIEW; SKIN; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CADHERINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTOR, EPHA2;

EID: 0036794948     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1040-8428(01)00199-8     Document Type: Review

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