Establishment of a versatile seminoma model indicates cellular plasticity of germ cell tumor cells

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 717-726

  Nettersheim, Daniel ^a   Westernströer, Birgit ^b   Haas, Natalie ^a   Leinhaas, Anke ^a   Brüstle, Oliver ^a   Schlatt, Stefan ^b   Schorle, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD30 ANTIGEN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CANCER GRAFT; CELL STRAIN TCAM 2; CELL TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; GERM CELL TUMOR; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEMINOMA; SKIN; TESTIS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SEMINOMA; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84860666285     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: 10982264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.21958     Document Type: Article

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