Growth inhibition of human colon carcinoma cells by combinations of anti-epidermal growth factor-related growth factor antisense oligonucleotides

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 601-609

  Normanno, Nicola ^a   Bianco, Caterina ^b   Damiano, Vincenzo ^b   De Angelis, Ernesto ^a   Selvam, Mouna P ^d   Grassi, Michele ^a   Magliulo, Gabriella ^a   Tortora, Giampaolo ^b   Bianco, Angelo R ^b   Mendelsohn, John ^e   Salomon, David S ^c   Ciardiello, Fortunato ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CRIPTO; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; THIONUCLEOTIDES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 9044251968     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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