Expression of the intermediate filament nestin in gastrointestinal stromal tumors and interstitial cells of Cajal

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 817-823

  Tsujimura, Tohru ^a   Makiishi Shimobayashi, Chiaki ^a   Lundkvist, Johan ^a   Lendahl, Urban ^a   Nakasho, Keiji ^a   Sugihara, Ayako ^a   Iwasaki, Teruo ^a   Mano, Masayuki ^b   Yamada, Naoko ^a   Yamashita, Kunihiro ^a   Toyosaka, Akihiro ^c   Terada, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NESTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COILED BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEIOMYOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MALE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STEM CELL; STROMA; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0035101531     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64029-1     Document Type: Article

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