The role of tumor cell-derived connective tissue growth factor (CTGF/CCN2) in pancreatic tumor growth

Cancer Research

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 775-784

  Bennewith, Kevin L ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   Ham, Christine M ^a   Graves, Edward E ^a   Erler, Janine T ^a   Kambham, Neeraja ^a   Feazell, Jonathan ^a   Yang, George P ^a   Koong, Albert ^a   Giaccia, Amato J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CCSR South   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CELL HYPOXIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL HYPOXIA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 59149092493     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-0987     Document Type: Article

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