Tumor growth inhibition with cetuximab and chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer xenografts expressing wild-type and mutated epidermal growth factor receptor

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1540-1551

  Steiner, Philipp ^a   Joynes, Christopher ^a   Bassi, Rajiv ^a   Wang, Su ^a   Tonra, James R ^a   Hadari, Yaron R ^a   Hicklin, Daniel J ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASE INHIBITOR; PEMETREXED;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER REGRESSION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TARGETING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IC 50; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MONOTHERAPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CISPLATIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TAXOIDS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 33947412800     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1887     Document Type: Article

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