Significant association of Rho/ROCK pathway with invasion and metastasis of bladder cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2632-2641

  Kamai, Takao ^a,b   Tsujii, Toshihiko ^a   Arai, Kyoko ^a   Takagi, Kentaro ^b   Asami, Hidekazu ^c   Ito, Yuji ^c   Oshima, Hiroyuki ^d  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Hospital   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Geriatric Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUPERFICIAL CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ADULT; AGED; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037817325     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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