Article
Epidermal growth factor-like growth factors. I. Breast malignancies and other epithelial proliferations in transgenic mice.
Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology - 1 Dec 1993
Strayer D S, Yang S, Schwartz M S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Growth factors recognized by the epidermal growth factor receptor are important in tumor production in some organs. The family of epidermal growth factor-like growth factors includes a group of poxviral growth factors: Shope growth factor (SGF), myxoma growth factor MGF), and vaccinia...
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Fibroma Virus, Rabbit
- Gene Expression
- Growth Substances
- In Situ Hybridization
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Mammary Glands, Animal
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Myxoma virus
- Peptides
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger
- Tissue Distribution
- Transforming Growth Factor alpha
- Vaccinia virus