Smoking-related increase of O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase expression in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

Cancer Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-55

  Nozoe, Tadahiro ^a   Korenaga, Daisuke ^a   Kabashima, Akira ^b   Sugimachi, Keizo ^b  

^a FUKUOKA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophagus; Immunohistochemistry; O6 Methylguanine DNA methyltransferase; Smoking; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

METHYLATED DNA PROTEIN CYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOKING HABIT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UP-REGULATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037044184     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(02)00188-X     Document Type: Article

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