Urocortin expression is downregulated in human endometrial carcinoma

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-105

  Florio, Pasquale ^a   De Falco, Giulia ^a   Leucci, Eleonora ^a   Torricelli, Michela ^a   Torres, Paulo B ^a   Toti, Paolo ^a   Dell'Anna, Arianna ^a   Tiso, Ennio ^a   Santopietro, Rosa ^a   Leoncini, Lorenzo ^a   Petraglia, Felice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR GROWTH; UTERUS PROLAPSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 33746704899     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06726     Document Type: Article

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