Quantification of HER family receptors in breast cancer

Breast Cancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nuciforo, Paolo ^a,b   Radosevic Robin, Nina ^c,d   Ng, Tony ^e,f   Scaltriti, Maurizio ^g  

^a VALL D HEBRON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d Biopathology Jean Perrin Comprehensive Cancer Center   (France)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; LAPATINIB; PERTUZUMAB; PROTEIN HER4; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRASTUZUMAB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

BREAST CANCER; DRUG RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ERBB RECEPTORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84926609225     PISSN: 14655411     EISSN: 1465542X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13058-015-0561-8     Document Type: Review

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