Combined lapatinib and cetuximab enhance cytotoxicity against gefitinib-resistant lung cancer cells

Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 607-615

  Kim, Hwang Phill ^a   Han, Sae Won ^a   Kim, Sung Hak ^a   Im, Seock Ah ^a   Oh, Do Youn ^a   Bang, Yung Jue ^a   Kim, Tae You ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; GEFITINIB; LAPATINIB; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER PATIENT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG INHIBITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DIMERIZATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GENES, ERBB-2; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; QUINAZOLINES; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 41649111490     PISSN: 15357163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-07-2068     Document Type: Article

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