MMP-9 is predominantly expressed in epithelioid and not spindle cell uveal melanoma

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 201-206

  Sapino, Anna ^a   Bongiovanni, Massimo ^a   Cassoni, Paola ^a   Righi, Luisella ^a   Arisio, Riccardo ^b   Deaglio, Silvia ^a   Malavasi, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Sant'Anna Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epithelioid cell melanoma; Metastasis; MMP 2; MMP 3; MMP 9; TIMP 1; TIMP 2; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; METALLOPROTEINASE; METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEINASE; STROMELYSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIOID CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINDLE CELL; TIME; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; UVEA MELANOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 3; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-2; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034969317     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(200106)194:2<201::AID-PATH840>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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