Overexpression of oncogenic STK15/BTAK/Aurora A kinase in human pancreatic cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 991-997

  Li, Donghui ^a   Zhu, Jijiang ^a   Firozi, Pervez F ^a   Abbruzzese, James L ^a   Evans, Douglas B ^a   Cleary, Karen ^a   Friess, Helmut ^b   Sen, Subrata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN AURORA A KINASE; PROTEIN BTAK; PROTEIN CDC25; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ONCOGENE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEUPLOIDY; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RAS-GRF1; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0037343237     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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