Biological analysis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors

Oncology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1277-1282

  Noguchi, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sato, Tetsuro ^a   Takeno, Shinsuke ^a   Uchida, Yuzo ^a   Kashima, Kenji ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeo ^a   Müller, Wolfram ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bcl 2; GIST; Ki 67

Indexed keywords

BAX PROTEIN, HUMAN; CD34 ANTIGEN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; ONCOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; PROTEIN S 100; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 18; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; STROMA CELL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; S100 PROTEINS; STROMAL CELLS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0036834137     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.9.6.1277     Document Type: Article

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