Up-regulation of METCAM/MUC18 promotes motility, invasion, and tumorigenesis of human breast cancer cells

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zeng, Guo Fang ^a,b   Cai, Shao Xi ^a   Wu, Guang Jer ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD146 ANTIGEN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANINE; PROTEIN METCAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BLOCKING ANTIBODY; MCAM PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL STRAIN MDA MB 231; CELL STRAIN MDA MB 468; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CELL MOTION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; ANTIGENS, CD146; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TRANSGENES; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY;

EID: 79954610473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-113     Document Type: Article

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