Immunoelectron microscopic demonstration of regulated pathway for calcitonin and constitutive pathway for carcinoembryonic antigen in the same cells of human medullary carcinomas of thyroid glands

Modern Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-11

  Osamura, R Yoshiyuki ^a   Yasuda, Osamu ^a   Kawakami, Takeshi ^a   Itoh, Yoshiko ^a   Inada, Kenichi ^a   Kakudo, Kenichi ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

calcitonin; carcinoembryonic antigen; constitutive pathway; medullary carcinoma; regulated pathway; thyroid; trans Golgi network

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; THYROID GLAND;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CALCITONIN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031053848     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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