Cathepsin B in the Growth of Colorectal Cancer: Increased Activity of Cathepsin B in Human Colorectal Cancer

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 305-311

  Satoh, Yasumasa ^a   Higashi, Toshihiro ^a   Nouso, Kazuhiro ^a   Shiota, Tetsuya ^a   Kinugasa, Nobuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Keigo ^a   Uematsu, Shuji ^a   Nakatsukasa, Harushige ^a   Nishimura, Yukio ^b   Tsuji, Takao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cathepsin B; Colorectal adenoma; Colorectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; TUMOR MARKER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COLON TUMOR; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RECTUM TUMOR; STAINING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHEPSIN B; CELL DIVISION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030333716     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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