Immunohistochemical detection of α-catenin expression in human cancers

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 667-674

  Shiozaki, Hitoshi ^a   Iihara, Keisuke ^a   Oka, Hiroshi ^a   Kadowaki, Takatoshi ^a   Matsui, Shigeo ^a   Gofuku, Jyunji ^a   Inoue, Masatoshi ^a   Nagafuchi, Akira ^b   Tsukita, Shoichiro ^b   Mori, Takesada ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0028178284     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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