Overexpression of focal adhesion kinase in primary colorectal carcinomas and colorectal liver metastases: Immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR analyses

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 215-222

  Lark, Amy L ^a   Livasy, Chad A ^a   Calvo, Benjamin ^a   Caskey, Laura ^a   Moore, Dominic T ^a   Yang, XiHui ^a   Cance, William G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON MUCOSA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE 1; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037237066     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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