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SUBMITTER: Shen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4546498 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shen Jiayin J Putt Karson S KS Visscher Daniel W DW Murphy Linda L Cohen Cynthia C Singhal Sunil S Sandusky George G Feng Yang Y Dimitrov Dimiter S DS Low Philip S PS
Oncotarget 20150601 16
Over-expression of folate receptor alpha on cancer cells has been frequently exploited for delivery of folate-targeted imaging and therapeutic agents to tumors. Because limited information exists on expression of the beta isoform of the folate receptor in human cancers (FR-β), we have evaluated the immunohistochemical staining pattern of FR-β in 992 tumor sections from 20 different human cancer types using a new anti-human FR-β monoclonal antibody. FR-β expression was shown to be more pronounced ...[more]