Response to trastuzumab, erlotinib, and bevacizumab, alone and in combination, is correlated with the level of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 expression in human breast cancer cell lines

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2664-2674

  Emlet, David R ^a   Brown, Kathryn A ^a   Kociban, Deborah L ^a   Pollice, Agnese A ^a   Smith, Charles A ^a   Ong, Ben Brian L ^a   Shackney, Stanley E ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ERLOTINIB; TRASTUZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; G1 PHASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 35848945096     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-07-0079     Document Type: Article

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