Genetic evidence for the Lewis enzyme, which synthesizes type-1 Lewis antigens in colon tissue, and intracellular localization of the enzyme

Cancer Research

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 330-338

  Narimatsu, Hisashi ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroko ^a   Nishihara, Shoko ^a   Kimura, Hirohisa ^a   Kudo, Takashi ^a,c   Yamauchi, Yuko ^b   Hirohashi, Setsuo ^b  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLON CANCER; COLON MUCOSA; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD15; BASE SEQUENCE; CA-19-9 ANTIGEN; CARBOHYDRATE SEQUENCE; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPITOPES; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0030047288     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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