The inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) survivin is expressed in human testicular germ cell tumors and normal testes

Cancer Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 331-337

  Weikert, Steffen ^a   Schrader, Mark ^a   Krause, Hans ^a   Schulze, Wolfgang ^b   Müller, Markus ^a   Miller, Kurt ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Infertility; Survivin; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SURVIVIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; APLASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; GERM CELL TUMOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TERATOMA; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS, GERM CELL AND EMBRYONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 19344365618     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.10.038     Document Type: Article

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