H-Ras expression in immortalized keratinocytes produces an invasive epithelium in cultured skin equivalents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Vaughan, Melville B ^a,b   Ramirez, Ruben D ^a   Andrews, Capri M ^b   Wright, Woodring E ^a   Shay, Jerry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CYTOKERATIN 14; INVOLUCRIN; KALININ; PROTEIN P63; RAS PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN; CADHERIN; COLLAGEN; HRAS PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN P21;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; MESENCHYME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SKIN CULTURE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR;

CADHERINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70949094196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007908     Document Type: Article

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