Gastrointestinal stromal tumors and KIT-positive mesenchymal cells in the omentum

Pathology International

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 524-531

  Sakurai, Shinji ^a   Hishima, Tunekazu ^b   Takazawa, Yutaka ^c   Sano, Takaaki ^d   Nakajima, Takashi ^d   Saito, Ken ^a   Morinaga, Shojiroh ^a   Fukayama, Masashi ^c  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double immunostaining; Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST); Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC); KIT protein; Omentum

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CD34 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYME; OMENTUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; STROMAL CELLS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034889848     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2001.01224.x     Document Type: Article

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