Sex steroid hormone receptors in human thymoma

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2309-2317

  Ishibashi, Hironori ^a,d   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Suzuki, Satoshi ^b   Moriya, Takuya ^a   Kaneko, Chika ^a   Takizawa, Touichirou ^d   Sunamori, Makoto ^d   Handa, Masashi ^c   Kondo, Takashi ^b   Sasano, Hironobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI KOUSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LABELING INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMOMA; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CELL NUCLEUS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038368882     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-021353     Document Type: Article

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