Nuclear translocations of β-catenin and TCF4 in gastric cancers correlate with lymph node metastasis but probably not with CD44 expression

Human Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1294-1301

  Chen, Xiao Yan ^a   Wang, Zhi Chuang ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Cheng, Xiao Xin ^a   Sun, Yuan ^a   Wang, Xiao Wei ^a   Wu, Mo Li ^a   Liu, Jia ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Catenin; CD44; Gastric cancer; Metastatic factors; T cell factors

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; T CELL FACTOR 4; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING; STOMACH; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH CARCINOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTIGENS, CD44; BETA CATENIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GASTRITIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TCF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 27944468211     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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