herg encodes a K+ current highly conserved in tumors of different histogenesis: A selective advantage for cancer cells?

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 815-822

  Bianchi, Laura ^b   Wible, Barbara ^b   Arcangeli, Annarosa ^c   Taglialatela, Maurizio ^d   Morra, Ferdinande ^d   Castaldo, Pasqualina ^d   Crociani, Olivia ^c   Rosati, Barbara ^a   Faravelli, Laura ^a   Olivotto, Massimo ^c   Wanke, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; POTASSIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPHYSICS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; NEOPLASMS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 18844467600     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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