Endothelin-secreting tumors and the idea of the pseudoectopic hormone secretion in tumors

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 329-333

  Kurbel, S ^a   Kurbel, B ^b   Kovacic D ^a   Sulava, D ^c   Krajina, Z ^d   Dmitrovoc B ^a   Sokcevic M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^b University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

^c Victoria Square Medical Center ^*  (Switzerland)

^d SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ENDOTHELIN; ENDOTHELIN 1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GASTRIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER CELL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ECTOPIC HORMONE PRODUCTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY TUMOR; LARGE INTESTINE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PANCREAS; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL; THYROID GLAND; TUMOR; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0033049570     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.1997.0637     Document Type: Article

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