VEGFR-2 expression in carcinoid cancer cells and its role in tumor growth and metastasis

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1045-1056

  Silva, Scott R ^a,b   Bowen, Kanika A ^a   Rychahou, Piotr G ^b,c   Jackson, Lindsey N ^a   Weiss, Heidi L ^b,c   Lee, Eun Y ^b,d   Townsend Jr , Courtney M ^a   Evers, B Mark ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

angiogenic factors and receptors; cell motility and migration; tumor markers and detection of metastasis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE B; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CANCER CELL; CARCINOID; CELL ADHESION; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOID TUMOR; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 78650757871     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.25441     Document Type: Article

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