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Expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor in synovial sarcoma: association with an aggressive phenotype.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 1999
Xie Y, Skytting B, Nilsson G, Brodin B, Larsson O
Abstract excerpt
It is well known that insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) plays a crucial role in proliferation and survival of transformed cells. Overexpression of IGF-1R in certain tumors has been reported, but there is still little known about its importance in vivo. Here, we evaluated the IGF-1R levels in 35 human synovial sarcoma tumors by Western blot and reverse transcriptase-PCR. In 18 of these, IGF-1R was...
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