Potential therapeutic impact of CD13 expression in non-small cell lung cancer.

Aminopeptidase N (CD13) is a zinc-binding protease that has functional effects on both cancerogenesis and tumor angiogenesis. Since CD13 is an antigen suitable for molecular targeted therapies (e.g. tTF-NGR induced tumor vascular infarction), we evaluated its impact in NSCLC patients, and tested the...

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Main Authors: Lars Henning Schmidt, Caroline Brand, Janine Stucke-Ring, Christoph Schliemann, Torsten Kessler, Saliha Harrach, Michael Mohr, Dennis Görlich, Alessandro Marra, Ludger Hillejan, Carsten Müller-Tidow, Georg Lenz, Eva Wardelmann, Rainer Wiewrodt, Wolfgang E Berdel, Christian Schwöppe, Wolfgang Hartmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5467809?pdf=render