Elevated serum β-defensins concentrations in patients with lung cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 4051-4057

  Arimura, Yasuji ^a   Ashitani, Jun Ichi ^a   Yanagi, Shigehisa ^a   Tokojima, Masatoshi ^a   Abe, Koh ^b   Mukae, Hiroshi ^b   Nakazato, Masamitsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defensin; Antimicrobial peptide; Immunohistochemistry; Lung cancer; Tumour marker

Indexed keywords

BETA DEFENSIN; BETA DEFENSIN 1; BETA DEFENSIN 2; DEFB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DEFB4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; CANCER STAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; BETA-DEFENSINS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 14944362697     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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