Expression of COX-2 and PGE synthase and synthesis of PGE2 in endometrial adenocarcinoma: A possible autocrine/paracrine regulation of neoplastic cell function via EP2/EP4 receptors

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1023-1031

  Jabbour, H N ^a   Milne, S A ^a   Williams, A R W ^b   Anderson, R A ^a   Boddy, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; COX 2; Prostaglandin; Receptors; Uterus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CANCER GRADING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TUMOR CELL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DINOPROSTONE; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOTHELIUM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN E; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035964607     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6692033     Document Type: Article

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