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Characterisation of the Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathway in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Isolated from Pleural Effusions.
Oncology - 1 Jan 2016
Puglisi Martina, Stewart Adam, Thavasu Parames, Frow Michael, Carreira Suzanne, Minchom Anna, Punwani Ravi, Bhosle Jaishree, Popat Sanjay, Ratoff Jonathan, de Bono Johann, Yap Timothy Anthony, O''Brien Mary, Banerji Udai
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OBJECTIVES: We hypothesised that it was possible to quantify phosphorylation of important nodes in the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway in cancer cells isolated from pleural effusions of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and study their correlation to somatic mutations and clinical outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cells were immunomagnetically separated from samples of pleural effusion...
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