Frequent nuclear β-catenin accumulation and associated mutations in endometrioid-type endometrial and ovarian carcinomas with squamous differentiation

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-67

  Saegusa, Makoto ^a   Okayasu, Isao ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

catenin; C jun; Endometrial carcinoma; Ovarian carcinoma; Squamous differentiation; Wnt 1

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; PROTEIN C JUN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; L CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OVARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BETA CATENIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAPLASIA; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; WNT PROTEINS; WNT1 PROTEIN; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0035028066     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.856     Document Type: Article

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