Immunohistochemical localisation of aromatase and its correlation with progesterone receptors in ovarian epithelial tumours

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 91-98

  Kitawaki, Jo ^a   Noguchi, Toshifumi ^a   Yamamoto, Takara ^a   Yokota, Kazuaki ^a   Maeda, Kazunori ^a   Urabe, Mamoru ^a   Honjo, Hideo ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Immunohistochemistry; Ovarian epithelial tumours; Progesterone receptors

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY TUMOR; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AROMATASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN DISEASES; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE;

EID: 0029979668     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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