Ets family protein, Erg expression in developing and adult mouse tissues by a highly specific monoclonal antibody

Journal of Cancer

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 197-208

  Mohamed, Ahmed A ^a   Tan, Shyh Han ^a   Mikhalkevich, Natallia ^a   Ponniah, Sathibalan ^a   Vasioukhin, Valeri ^b   Bieberich, Charles J ^c   Sesterhenn, Isabell A ^d   Dobi, Albert ^a   Srivastava, Shiv ^a   Sreenath, Taduru L ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; ERG; ERG MAb; Ets related gene; Expression; Mouse

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84877040769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18379664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/jca.1.197     Document Type: Article

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