MUC1 and Nuclear β-Catenin Are Coexpressed at the Invasion Front of Colorectal Carcinomas and Are Both Correlated with Tumor Prognosis

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2790-2796

  Baldus, Stephan E ^a   Mönig, Stefan P ^a   Huxel, Sandra ^a   Landsberg, Stephanie ^a   Hanisch, Franz Georg ^a   Engelmann, Katja ^a   Schneider, Paul M ^a   Thiele, Jürgen ^a   Hölscher, Arnulf H ^a   Dienes, Hans P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; MUCIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA CATENIN; CA-15-3 ANTIGEN; CELL NUCLEUS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144355980     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-03-0163     Document Type: Article

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