Prognostic significance of apoptosis in medulloblastoma

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 381, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 69-73

  Pizem, Joze ^a   Cör, Andrej ^b   Zaletel, Lorna Zadravec ^c   Popovic, Mara ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Caspase 3; Medulloblastoma

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CASPASE 3; ENZYME ANTIBODY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; METASTASIS; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 18844392543     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.02.021     Document Type: Article

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