PyNPase expression in human colon cancer

Cancer Letters

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 85-92

  Haba, Akinao ^a   Monden, Takushi ^a   Sekimoto, Mitsugu ^a   Ikeda, Kimimasa ^a   Izawa, Hikaru ^a   Kanou, Toshiyuki ^a   Amano, Masahiro ^a   Kan'Yama, Hiroki ^a   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Protein extraction; PyNPase; Stroma; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

PICIBANIL; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL;

ADULT; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 0032498263     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(97)00375-3     Document Type: Article

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