Cancer Letters
Volume 220, Issue 1 , Pages 95-99 , 18 March 2005

Transforming growth factor-β1 induces LMO7 while enhancing the invasiveness of rat ascites hepatoma cells

  • Hiroyuki Nakamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Tumor Biochemistry, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +81-6972-1181x4402; fax: +81-6-6972-7742.
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  • Mutsuko Mukai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Tumor Biochemistry, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
    • ,
  • Keiko Komatsu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Tumor Biochemistry, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
    • ,
  • Miki Tanaka-Okamoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Biology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, >Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
    • ,
  • Yu Itoh

      Affiliations

    • KAN Research Institute Inc., 93 chudoji-Awatamachi, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8815, Japan
    • ,
  • Hiroyoshi Ishizaki

      Affiliations

    • KAN Research Institute Inc., 93 chudoji-Awatamachi, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8815, Japan
    • ,
  • Masaharu Tatsuta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
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  • Masahiro Inoue

      Affiliations

    • Department of Tumor Biochemistry, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan
    • ,
  • Jun Miyoshi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Biology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, 1-3-3 Nakamichi, >Higashinari-ku, Osaka 537-8511, Japan

Received 9 July 2004 ,Accepted 21 July 2004.

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PII: S0304-3835(04)00574-9

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.07.023

Cancer Letters
Volume 220, Issue 1 , Pages 95-99 , 18 March 2005

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