Emergence of undifferentiated rat tracheal cell carcinomas, but not squamous cell carcinomas, is associated with a loss of expression of E-cadherin and of gap junction communication.

doi:10.1093/carcin/18.11.2043

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Emergence of undifferentiated rat tracheal cell carcinomas, but not squamous cell carcinomas, is associated with a loss of expression of E-cadherin and of gap junction communication.

Carcinogenesis - 1 Nov 1997

Terzaghi-Howe M, Chang G W, Popp D

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A series of cells representing normal, non-tumorigenic cell lines, as well as differentiating neoplastic and undifferentiated neoplastic rat tracheal epithelial cell populations were evaluated for their ability to establish homologous and/or heterologous cell-cell gap junction communication in cu...

Topics

Animals
Cadherins
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Cell Communication
Connexins
Epithelial Cells
Gap Junctions
Mice
Mice, Inbred ICR
Phenotype
Rats
Rats, Inbred F344
Tracheal Neoplasms

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