Immunohistochemical examination of c-Met protein expression in astrocytic tumors

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 345-351

  Hirose, Yuichi ^a   Kojima, Masaru ^a   Sagoh, Masachika ^a   Murakami, Hideki ^a   Yoshida, Kazunari ^b   Shimazaki, Kenji ^b   Kawase, Takeshi ^b  

^a ASHIKAGA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocytic tumors; c Met; Hepatocyte growth factor scatter factor; Immunofluorescence; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEROXIDASE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SCATTER FACTOR; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL ONCOGENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTO ONCOGENE;

ASTROCYTES; ASTROCYTOMA; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOMA; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET;

EID: 0031913354     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050809     Document Type: Article

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