Glucocorticoid receptor (GR) immunohistochemical expression is correlated with cell cycle-related molecules in human colon cancer

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1745-1750

  Theocharis, Stamatios ^a,b   Kouraklis, Gregorios ^a   Margeli, Alexandra ^a   Agapitos, Emmanuel ^a   Ninos, Sotirios ^a   Karatzas, Gabriel ^a   Koutselinis, Antonios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cell cycle related molecules; Colon cancer; Glucocorticoid receptor; Immunohistochemistry

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CYCLIN D1; CYCLIN E; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P16; PROTEIN P21; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; STREPTAVIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON BIOPSY; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; CELL CYCLE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; CYCLINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN;

EID: 0141427894     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025578527978     Document Type: Article

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