Differential thymosin β10 expression levels and actin filament organization in tumor cell lines with different metastatic potential

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 213-218

  Liu, Cong Rong ^a   Ma, Chun Shu ^a   Ning, Jun Yu ^a   You, Jiang Feng ^a   Liao, Song Lin ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Actin skeleton; Cell motility; Thymosin 10; Tumor cell metastatic potential

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHALLOIDIN; THYMOSIN BETA10;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ISOLATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROFILAMENTS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYMOSIN;

EID: 1542476824     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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