Differential expression of matrix metalloprotease-7 in each component of uterine carcinosarcoma

Oncology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1209-1212

  Tanimoto, Hirotoshi ^a   Shigemasa, Kazushi ^b   Sasaki, Makiko ^a   Katayama, Hiroko ^a   Kusumi, Ichiro ^a   Parmley, Tim H ^c   O'Brien, Timothy J ^c   Ohama, Koso ^b  

^a Asada General Hospital   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinosarcoma; Matrix metalloprotease 7; Uterus

Indexed keywords

MATRILYSIN; PARAFFIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARCINOSARCOMA; CHONDROSARCOMA; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERUS CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARCINOSARCOMA; CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 7; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SARCOMA; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034320044     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.7.6.1209     Document Type: Article

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