POU5F1 (OCT3/4) identifies cells with pluripotent potential in human germ cell tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2244-2250

  Looijenga, Leendert H J ^a,b   Stoop, Hans ^a   De Leeuw, Hubert P J C ^a   De Gouveia Brazao, Carlos A ^b   Gillis, Ad J M ^a   Van Roozendaal, Kees E P ^c   Van Zoelen, Everardus J J ^c   Weber, Rob F A ^b   Wolffenbuttel, Katja P ^a   Van Dekken, Herman ^a   Honecker, Friedemann ^d   Bokemeyer, Carsten ^d   Perlman, Elizabeth J ^e   Schneider, Dominik T ^f   Kononen, Juha ^g   Sauter, Guido ^h   Oosterhuis, J Wolter ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b JOSEPHINE NEFKENS INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g Diomeda Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OCT3 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DYSGERMINOMA; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; GONADOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINOMA; SPERMATOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037547198     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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