β-Catenin mutations in pulmonary blastomas: Association with morule formation

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 214-221

  Sekine, Shigeki ^a   Shibata, Tatsuhiro ^a   Matsuno, Yoshihiro ^a   Maeshima, Arafumi ^a   Ishii, Genichiro ^b   Sakamoto, Michiie ^a   Hirohashi, Setsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Morule; Neuroendocrine cells; Pulmonary blastoma; Well differentiated fetal adenocarcinoma; catenin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CELL DNA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA MODIFICATION; FEMALE; FETUS LUNG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HISTOGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG BLASTOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0038545852     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/path.1352     Document Type: Article

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