E-Cadherin Expression in Primary and Metastatic Gastric Cancer: Down-Regulation Correlates with Cellular Dedifferentiation and Glandular Disintegration

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 1690-1695

  Birchmeier, Walter ^c,e   Jauch, Karl W ^a   Heiss, Markus M ^a   Schildberg, Friedrich W ^a   Funke, Ilona ^a  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b Institute for Immunology   (Germany)

^c Institute for Pathology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CADHERINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOWN-REGULATION; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMAN; LIVER NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027522546     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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