Comparison of integrin, cadherin, and catenin expression in squamous cell carcinomas of the oral cavity

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 8-16

  Bagutti, Claudia ^a   Speight, Paul M ^b   Watt, Fiona M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cadherin; Catenin; Integrin; Oral cancer; SCC; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CATENIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA CATENIN; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DESMOPLAKINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAMMA CATENIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTEGRINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0031658654     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199809)186:1<8::AID-PATH156>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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