Expression of 5α-reductases in human epithelial ovarian cancer: Its correlation with androgen receptor status

Japanese Journal of Cancer Research

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 926-932

  Akahira, Jun Ichi ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Ito, Kiyoshi ^a   Darnel, Rew D ^a   Moriya, Takuya ^a   Sato, Shinji ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a   Sasano, Hironobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 reductase; Androgen receptor; Immunohistochemistry; Ovarian cancer; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ISOENZYME; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANDROGEN METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPITHELIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; BIOSYNTHESIS; CANCER STAGING; CHEMISTRY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OVARY TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, SEROUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE;

EID: 0034740810     PISSN: 09105050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2001.tb01182.x     Document Type: Article

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