Expression of connexin 43 in breast cancer in comparison with mammary dysplasia and the normal mammary gland

Folia Morphologica

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 439-442

  Kańczuga Koda, Luiza ^a   Sulkowska, Mariola ^a   Koda, Mariusz ^a   Reszeć, Joanna ^a   Famulski, Waldemar ^a   Baltaziak, Marek ^a   Sulkowski, Stanisław ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Benign mammary dysplasia; Breast cancer; Connexin 43; Gap junctions

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST DYSPLASIA; CANCER CELL; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULAR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMARY GLAND; MYOEPITHELIUM CELL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE SECTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANIMALS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONNEXIN 43; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0348133528     PISSN: 00155659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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