Metallothionein immunoreactivity in head and neck carcinomas; Special reference to clinical behaviors and chemotherapy responses

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1 A, 2000, Pages 257-264

  Muramatsu, Yasunori ^a   Hasegawa, Y ^b   Fukano, H ^c   Ogawa, T ^d   Namuba, M ^a   Mouri, K ^a   Fujimoto, Y ^b   Matsuura, H ^b   Takai, Y ^a   Mori, M ^a  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Head and neck carcinoma (maxillary sinus carcinomas); Immunohistochemistry; Metallothionein (MT)

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITIC CELL; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MAXILLA SINUS CANCER; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GINGIVAL NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS NEOPLASMS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19244379939     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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