CD44v6: A target for antibody-based cancer therapy

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 567-579

  Heider, Karl Heinz ^a   Kuthan, Hartmut ^b   Stehle, Gerd ^b   Munzert, Gerd ^b  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM RCV GMBH AND CO KG   (Austria)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bivatuzumab; CD44v6 immunohistochemistry; Monoclonal antibody; Tumour therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BIVATUZUMAB; CD44V6 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOPROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RHENIUM 186; TECHNETIUM 99M; U 36 MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CD44 ANTIGEN GENE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE; TUMOR; TUMOR CELL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEOPLASM; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL COMMUNICATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2342537511     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-003-0494-4     Document Type: Review

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