Nanobacteria promote crystallization of psammoma bodies in ovarian cancer

APMIS

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 951-954

  Sedivy, Roland ^a,b   Battistutti, Walter B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Infection; Nanobacteria; Ovary; Psammoma bodies

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OVARY CANCER; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSAMMOMA BODY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ASCITIC FLUID; BACTERIA; CALCINOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, SEROUS; DURAPATITE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 0242267011     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0463.2003.1111006.x     Document Type: Article

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