Differential expression of Galectin-3 in pituitary tumors

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2251-2255

  Riss, Dominik ^a   Jin, Long ^a   Qian, Xiang ^a   Bayliss, Jill ^a   Scheithauer, Bernd W ^a   Young Jr , William F ^a   Vidal, Sergio ^b   Kovacs, Kalman ^b   Raz, Avraham ^c   Lloyd, Ricardo V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GALECTIN 3; PROLACTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTINOMA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA PROCESSING; STELLATE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P27; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, ANTISENSE; GALECTIN 3; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 0038713461     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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