Cancer Letters
Volume 286, Issue 2 , Pages 189-195 , 28 December 2009

Interleukin-18 induces transferrin expression in breast cancer cell line MCF-7

  • Sunyoung Park

      Affiliations

    • Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Sun Young Yoon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Kyung-Eun Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Ha Reum Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Dae Young Hur

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Research Center for Women’s Disease, Inje University Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea
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  • Hyunkeun Song

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Research Center for Women’s Disease, Inje University Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea
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  • Daejin Kim

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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  • Sa Ik Bang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Addresses: Department of Plastic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, 50 Ilwon-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 2 3410 2215; fax: +82 2 3410 0036 (S.I. Bang), Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 140-742, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 2 710 9416; fax: +82 2 6359 6789 (D.-H. Cho).
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  • Dae-Ho Cho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Addresses: Department of Plastic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, 50 Ilwon-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 2 3410 2215; fax: +82 2 3410 0036 (S.I. Bang), Department of Life Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, 52 Hyochangwon-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 140-742, Republic of Korea. Tel.: +82 2 710 9416; fax: +82 2 6359 6789 (D.-H. Cho).

Received 30 September 2008 ,Revised 21 May 2009 ,Accepted 25 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2009.05.025

Cancer Letters
Volume 286, Issue 2 , Pages 189-195 , 28 December 2009

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