A Transient, EMT-Linked Loss of Basement Membranes Indicates Metastasis and Poor Survival in Colorectal Cancer

Gastroenterology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 830-840

  Spaderna, Simone ^a   Schmalhofer, Otto ^a   Hlubek, Falk ^b   Berx, Geert ^c   Eger, Andreas ^d   Merkel, Susanne ^a   Jung, Andreas ^b   Kirchner, Thomas ^b   Brabletz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL LINE; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 33748116186     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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