Activation and overexpression of centrosome kinase BTAK/Aurora-A in human ovarian cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1420-1426

  Gritsko, Tatiana M ^a   Coppola, Domenico ^a   Paciga, June E ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Sun, Mei ^a   Shelley, Sue A ^a   Fiorica, James V ^a   Nicosia, Santo V ^a   Cheng, Jin Q ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURORA A KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE BTAK; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CENTROSOME; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0037386929     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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