Changes in the expression of gap junction proteins (connexins) in hamster tongue epithelium during wound healing and carcinogenesis

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1319-1328

  Saitoh, Masato ^a,b   Oyamada, Masahito ^a,c   Oyamada, Yumiko ^a   Kaku, Tohru ^b   Mori, Michio ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; HAMSTER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAPILLOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; TONGUE CANCER; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONNEXINS; CRICETINAE; EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; PAPILLOMA; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031409112     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.7.1319     Document Type: Article

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