Increased tumorigenicity and invasiveness of C6 rat glioma cells transfected with the human α-2,8 sialyltransferase cDNA

Invasion and Metastasis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 142-154

  Sottocornola, E ^a   Colombo, I ^a   Vergani, V ^b   Taraboletti, G ^b   Berra, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INST PHARMACOL RES   (Italy)

Author keywords

C6 rat glioma cells; Gangliosides; Invasion; Proliferation rate; Sialyltransferase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GANGLIOSIDE GD3; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIOMA CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GANGLIOSIDES; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0344678341     PISSN: 02511789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000024507     Document Type: Article

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