In-vivo fusion of human cancer and hamster stromal cells permanently transduces and transcribes human DNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Goldenberg, David M ^a,b   Rooney, Robert J ^c   Loo, Meiyu ^b   Liu, Donglin ^b   Chang, Chien Hsing ^b  

^a CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IMMUNOMEDICS INC   (United States)

^c Genome Explorations Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; CELL PROTEIN; SATELLITE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER CELL LINE; CANCER GRAFT; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; F11R GENE; GB 749 CELL LINE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GLIOBLASTOMA CELL LINE; GW 532 CELL LINE; GW 584 CELL LINE; HAMSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA CELL; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; TUMOR INVASION; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CRICETINAE;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84907432710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107927     Document Type: Article

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