Expression of Thyroid-specific Transcription Factors TTF-1 and PAX-8 in Human Thyroid Neoplasms

Cancer Research

Volumn 54, Issue 17, 1994, Pages 4744-4749

  Belfiore, Antonino ^a,c   Beltrami, Carlo Alberto ^b   Di Lauro, Roberto ^a   Damante, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Ist di Sci e Tecnologie Molecolari   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GOITER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PARATHYROID ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0028123016     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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