Table 1.

The synonym and discovery of four members of the EGFR family.

Receptor	Synonym	Discovery	References
EGFR	erbB1, HER	Carpenter et al. (1975) and Ullrich et al. (1984)	[6]
ErbB2	HER2, neu	Stern et al. (1986); Bargmann and Weinberg (1988)	[6]
ErbB3	HER3	Plowman et al. (1990)	[6]
ErbB4	HER4	Plowman et al. (1993)	[6]