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Establishment of a new scirrhous gastric cancer cell line with loss of heterozygosity at E-cadherin locus.
International journal of oncology - 1 Nov 2001
Murahashi K, Yashiro M, Takenaka C, Matsuoka T, Ohira M, Chung K H
Abstract excerpt
Scirrhous gastric carcinoma, characterized by carcinoma cell proliferation and infiltration with extensive fibrosis in the stroma, frequently causes peritoneal metastasis. We describe here a newly established cell line, OCUM-6, derived from ascites effusion of a scirrhous gastric cancer patient. The cells are floating and round shape, similar to other scirrhous gastric carcinoma cell lines previously reported....
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