C-erbB-2 or mutant Ha-ras induced malignant transformation of immortalized human ovarian surface epithelial cells in vitro

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2293-2298

  Kusakari, T ^a   Kariya, M ^a   Mandai, M ^a   Tsuruta, Y ^a   Hamid, A A ^a   Fukuhara, K ^a   Nanbu, K ^a   Takakura, K ^a   Fujii, S ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immortalization; Malignant transformation; Ovarian cancer; Ovarian surface epithelium

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INCIDENCE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE RAS; OVARY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CELL; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, ERBB-2; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0842308789     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601423     Document Type: Article

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