Cripto expression in human urological tumors

Cancer Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Okajima, Eijiro ^a   Tsutsumi, Masahiro ^a   Okajima, Eigoro ^a   Konishi, Yoichi ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cripto; Growth factor; Urological tumors

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ONCOPROTEIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX CARCINOMA; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY PELVIS TUMOR; KIDNEY TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TESTIS TUMOR; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; URETER TUMOR;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031022488     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(96)04559-4     Document Type: Article

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