Transcriptional impairment of β-catenin/E-cadherin complex is not associated with β-catenin mutations in colorectal carcinomas

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 206-209

  Garinis, G A ^a,d   Spanakis, N E ^a   Menounos, P G ^a   Manolis, E N ^c   Peros, G ^b  

^a Nursing Military Academy   (Greece)

^b Nikaia Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

catenin; Colorectal; mRNA; Mutations

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; UVOMORULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA CATENIN; CADHERINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037468141     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600706     Document Type: Article

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