Connexin-43 upregulation in micrometastases and tumor vasculature and its role in tumor cell attachment to pulmonary endothelium

BMC Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Elzarrad, M Khair ^a   Haroon, Abu ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^b   Dobrowolski, Radoslaw ^b   Gillespie, Mark N ^a   Al Mehdi, Abu Bakr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG ENDOTHELIUM; MICROMETASTASIS; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL JUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEOPLASM; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; TUMOR CELL LINE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; RATS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 48649102225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-6-20     Document Type: Article

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