Differential nuclear matrix-intermediate filament expression in human prostate cancer in respect to benign prostatic hyperplasia

Cancer Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 193-198

  Alberti, Ingles ^a   Parodi, Silvio ^a,b   Barboro, Paola ^a   Sanna, Paola ^a   Nicolò, Guido ^a   Allera, Caterina ^a,c   Patrone, Eligio ^c   Galli, Stefano ^b   Balbi, Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Ist di Studi Chimico Fisici di M   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intermediate filaments; Nuclear matrix; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY;

AGED; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MATRIX; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030568071     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(96)04444-8     Document Type: Article

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