Altered mRNA expression of specific molecular species of fucosyl- and sialyl-transferases in human colorectal cancer tissues

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 556-564

  Ito, Hiroaki ^a   Hiraiwa, Nozomu ^a   Sawada Kasugai, Mikiko ^a   Akamatsu, Suguru ^b   Tachikawa, Tetsuya ^b   Kasai, Yasushi ^c   Akiyama, Seiji ^c   Ito, Katuki ^c   Takagi, Hiroshi ^c   Kannagi, Reiji ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP LEWIS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COS CELLS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GANGLIOSIDES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030979567     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19970516)71:4<556::AID-IJC9>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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