Expression of smooth muscle calponin in tumor vessels of human hepatocellular carcinoma and its possible association with prognosis

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1777-1786

  Sasaki, Yo ^a   Yamamura, Hisako ^a   Kawakami, Yuriko ^a   Yamada, Terumasa ^a   Hiratsuka, Masahiro ^a   Kameyama, Masao ^a   Ohigashi, Hiroaki ^a   Ishikawa, Osamu ^a   Imaoka, Shingi ^a   Ishiguro, Shingo ^a   Takahashi, Katsuhito ^a,b  

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

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Calponin; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Prognosis after hepatic resection; Prognostic factor; Tumor vessel

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALMODULIN BINDING PROTEIN; CALPONIN; TROPOMYOSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037086612     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10402     Document Type: Article

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