Molecular characteristics of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and signet-ring-cell carcinoma of colorectum

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 33-38

  Kawabata, Yuichi ^a   Tomita, Naohiro ^a   Monden, Takushi ^a   Ohue, Masayuki ^a   Ohnishi, Tadashi ^a   Sasaki, Masaya ^a   Sekimoto, Mitsugu ^a   Sakita, Isao ^a   Tamaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Takahashi, Juro ^b   Yagyu, Toshio ^c   Mishima, Hideyuki ^c   Kikkawa, Nobuteru ^c   Monden, Morito ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN P53; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; ONCOGENE K RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0032942805     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990219)84:1<33::AID-IJC7>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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