The significance of nm23 protein expression in human gastric carcinomas

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 957-965

  Ura, Hideki ^a   Denno, Ryuichi ^a   Hirata, Koichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

gastric cancer; metastasis of gastric cancer; nm23

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN NM23; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030477242     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00309953     Document Type: Article

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