Uroplakin II gene is expressed in transitional cell carcinoma but not in bilharzial bladder squamous cell carcinoma: Alternative pathways of bladder epithelial differentiation and tumor formation

Cancer Research

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1291-1297

  Wu, Ren Long ^a   Osman, Iman ^b   Wu, Xue Ru ^a,c   Lu, Ming Lan ^b   Zhang, Zuo Feng ^b   Liang, Feng Xia ^a   Hamza, Reda ^d   Scher, Howard ^b   Cordon Cardo, Carlos ^b   Sun, Tung Tien ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RETINOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROPLAKIN 2;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; BLADDER EPITHELIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME 11Q; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 0032520891     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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