E-Cadherin in human brain tumours: Loss of immunoreactivity in malignant meningiomas

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 432, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-167

  Schwechheimer, Karl ^a   Zhou, Lepu ^a   Birchmeier, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; E Cadherin; Meningiomas

Indexed keywords

UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MENINGIOMA; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEURINOMA; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADHERINS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031943089     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280050151     Document Type: Article

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