Differential induction of connexins 26 and 30 in skin tumors and their adjacent epidermis

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 171-182

  Haass, Nikolas K ^a,b   Wladykowski, Ewa ^a   Kief, Sabine ^a   Moll, Ingrid ^a   Brandner, Johanna M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Cell cell communication; Gap junction; Melanoma; Nevus; Skin cancer; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOKERATIN 17; CYTOKERATIN 6; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPIDERMIS; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KERATINOCYTE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SKIN TUMOR; STAINING; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; BOWEN'S DISEASE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONNEXINS; EPIDERMIS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; KERATINS; KERATOSIS; LIVER; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WARTS;

EID: 32044436979     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.5A6719.2005     Document Type: Article

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