Nucleolar size and activity are related to pRb and p53 status in human breast cancer

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1601-1607

  Treré, Davide ^a   Ceccarelli, Claudio ^a   Montanaro, Lorenzo ^a   Tosti, Elena ^a   Derenzini, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AgNORs; Breast cancer; p53; pRb; Ribosome biogenesis

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN P53; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BREAST CANCER; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RIBOSOME; RNA SYNTHESIS; SILVER STAINING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION; RETINOBLASTOMA PROTEIN; RIBOSOMES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 10044226056     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.4A6454.2004     Document Type: Article

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