Squamous cell cancers comprise the most common type of human epithelial cancers. One
subtype, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), is an aggressive cancer with poor …

The maternal host responds immunologically to antigens of the fetus. While the immune
responses to paternally derived alloantigens and to placental antigens have been …

Sixteen monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against TA34 antigen found on the surface of human
T‐cell leukemia virus type‐I (HTLV‐I) infected cells were prepared. These MAbs and one …

Chick embryos of different ages and adult chickens were examined for the expression of
pp60 c-src, the normal cellular homolog of the transforming protein of Rous sarcoma virus. In …

Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) in the chicken represents one of the oldest systems for the
experimental investigation of tumor induction and development (Rous 1911). Today this …

Intravenous inoculation of chicken amniotic fluid (ChAmF) marked ly reduced natural killer
(NK) cell activity of spleen cells from Japanese quails. The reduction of NK activity was …

Tumor cells differ from their normal counterparts in two important functional properties: they
are capable of indefinite proliferation and they display a more or less drastically altered …

Autonomous cell proliferation appears to be an essential characteristic of most neoplastic
cells. Present knowledge of the biochemical and biological properties by which the …

The transformation of a normal into a tumor cell is not caused by a single molecular event,
but is the consequence of several simultaneous or consecutive molecular processes, which …

The effect of a tumor promoter, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA), on
differentiation marker expression in skeletal myotubes and their immediate progenitors …