Hypermethylation-associated transcriptional silencing of E-cadherin in primary sporadic colorectal carcinomas

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 442-449

  Garinis, George A ^a,e   Menounos, Panayiotis G ^a   Spanakis, Nick E ^b   Papadopoulos, Kostas ^c   Karavitis, George ^c   Parassi, Ismailou ^c   Christeli, Evangelia ^b   Patrinos, George P ^a,e   Manolis, Evangelos N ^d   Peros, George ^c  

^a Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

^b MEDICANALYSIS   (Greece)

^c Nikaia Hospital   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; E cadherin; Immunohistochemistry; Methylation; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, NEOPLASM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036898344     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1237     Document Type: Article

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