Cell fusion: A hidden enemy?

Cancer Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 445-448

  Duelli, Dominik ^a   Lazebnik, Yuri ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; FLUOROURACIL; HYBRID PROTEIN; MACROGOL; METHOTREXATE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL FUSION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL HYBRIDIZATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYBRID CELL; LETTER; MACROPHAGE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONDISJUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SOMATIC CELL; STEM CELL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS; VIRUS PARTICLE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM;

UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0842320021     PISSN: 15356108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1535-6108(03)00114-4     Document Type: Letter

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