Immunocytochemical detection of hMSH2 and hMLH1 expression in oral melanoma

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2 A, 2000, Pages 741-748

  Muzio, Lorenzo Lo ^a,c,e   Nocini, Pierfrancesco ^b   Mignogna, Michele D ^a   Pannone, Giuseppe ^a   Staibano, Stefania ^a   Procaccini, Maurizio ^a   Rubini, Corrado ^c   Fioroni, Massimiliano ^c   Fanali, Stefano ^a   Piattelli, Adriano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Head and neck; hMLH1; hMSH2; Melanoma; Oral

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GINGIVAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIP NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 0344002722     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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