Loss of human E-cadherin (ECD) correlated with invasiveness of transitional cell cancer in the renal pelvis, ureter and urinary bladder

Cancer Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Wakatsuki, Shun Ji ^a   Watanabe, Ryusuke ^a   Saito, Kazuhide ^a   Saito, Toshiro ^a   Katagiri, Akiyoshi ^a   Sato, Shotaru ^a   Tomita, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

E cadherin; Transitional cell cancer; catenin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; MESSENGER RNA; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY PELVIS CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; URETER CANCER;

EID: 0030003483     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(96)04194-8     Document Type: Article

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