Cathepsin D in tissue and serum of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Cancer Letters

Volumn 130, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 49-56

  Strojan, Primož ^a   Budihna, Marjan ^a   Šmid, Lojze ^b   Vrhovec, Ivan ^a   Škrk, Janez ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b Univ Dept Otorhinolaryngology C   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cathepsin D; Head and neck carcinoma; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; CATHEPSIN D;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; LARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; NECK CANCER; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CATHEPSIN D; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS;

EID: 0032516641     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(98)00114-1     Document Type: Article

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